GENEROSITY AND THE ARAB PROVERB

Various studies have concluded that there is a gene that influences generosity.

A quality, tendency or character trait, as good (or bad) as any other, that my close friends, relatives and colleagues have someway recognized in me, after an exercise prescribed by a former coach some years ago.

According to dictionary definitions, it also applies to value and effort in hard business. So as when you work with nobility of mind. That is why I wonder how this attitude is integrated into the performance and relationships of each one of us in the professional world.

And above all, how to know to balance this tendency to help others and to give them your best without expecting (consciously) anything in return. We can find some answer according to the wise words of the following Arab proverb that it appears to me always good to remember to myself and to others:

“Do not say everything you know.
Do not do everything you can.
Do not believe everything you hear.
Do not spend all you have…

Because the one who…
says everything she/he knows;
does all he can;
believes everything he hears;
spends everything he has,

Many times she/he…
Says what is not convenient;
does what he should not;
Judges what he does not see;
Spends what he can’t ”