A review by bluishgreen12
Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success by Adam M. Grant

challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

I thought it was a good book, it was very well argumented. It resonated a lot with my experience. I was often asked why I don't retaliate when someone does something mean to me, even if I could easily do it. Despite not being religious or spiritual my answer was always that I believe in some sort of karma-like process and that people who constantly take will not go far or be successful by taking advantage. I had no proof of this of course but it was a strong belief based on experience. Well, this booked showed me how and why that is a real thing, why takers only gain in the short term, and what role the world's matchers play in that. The book is about much more, of course, but that was one of my highlights. If there is negative I would say it is the lack of diversity in the stories the author chose, namely sports, banking, lawyers, essentially high lever/paying professions.