Разбор 1️⃣ книги Give and Take by Adam Grant
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📑 Give and Take by Adam Grant 📑
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According to conventional wisdom, highly successful people have three things in common: motivation, ability, and opportunity. If we want to succeed, we need a combination of hard work, talent, and luck.
Success depends heavily on how we approach our interactions with other people. Every time we interact with another person at work, we have a choice to make: do we try to claim as much value as we can, or contribute value without worrying about what we receive in return?
Over the past three decades, in a series of groundbreaking studies, social scientists have discovered that people differ dramatically in their preferences for reciprocity—their desired mix of taking and giving.
Takers have a distinctive signature: they like to get more than they give. They tilt reciprocity in their own favor, putting their own interests ahead of others’ needs. Takers believe that the world is a competitive, dog-eat-dog place. They feel that to succeed, they need to be better than others. To prove their competence, they self-promote and make sure they get plenty of credit for their efforts.
Takers aren’t cruel or cutthroat; they’re just cautious and self-protective. “If I don’t look out for myself first,” takers think, “no one will.”
In the workplace, givers are a relatively rare breed. They tilt reciprocity in the other direction, preferring to give more than they get. Whereas takers tend to be self-focused, evaluating what other people can offer them, givers are other-focused, paying more attention to what other people need from them. These preferences aren’t about money: givers and takers aren’t distinguished by how much they donate to charity or the compensation that they command from their employers. Rather, givers and takers differ in their attitudes and actions toward other people. If you’re a taker, you help others strategically, when the benefits to you outweigh the personal costs. If you’re a giver, you might use a different cost-benefit analysis: you help whenever the benefits to others exceed the personal costs. Alternatively, you might not think about the personal costs at all, helping others without expecting anything in return. If you’re a giver at work, you simply strive to be generous in sharing your time, energy, knowledge, skills, ideas, and connections with other people who can benefit from them.
Вeing a giver doesn’t require extraordinary acts of sacrifice. It just involves a focus on acting in the interests of others, such as by giving help, providing mentoring, sharing credit, or making connections for others. Outside the workplace, this type of behavior is quite common.
🖇 Watch List 🖇
🖇 https://www.adamgrant.net/book/give-and-take/ - official site
🖇 https://youtu.be/zl-jqIoAxEw - Why you should be a giver: GIVE & TAKE by Adam Grant | Core Message
🖇 https://youtu.be/YyXRYgjQXX0 - Are you a giver or a taker? | Adam Grant | TED Talk
List of new words P1
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◾️conventional - traditional and ordinary
◾️succeed - If you succeed, you achieve something that you have been aiming for, and if a plan or piece of work succeeds, it has the results that you wanted
◾️depend on/upon sb/sth - to trust someone or something and know that that person or thing will help you or do what you want or expect him, her, or it to do
◾️approach - to deal with something
◾️interaction - an occasion when two or more people or things communicate with or react to each other
◾️claim - to demand something of value because you believe it belongs to you or you have a right to it
◾️contribute - to give something, especially money, in order to provide or achieve something together with other people
◾️groundbreaking - If something is groundbreaking, it is very new and a big change from other things of its type
◾️dramatically - suddenly or obviously
◾️reciprocity - behaviour in which two people or groups of people give each other help and advantages
◾️desired - that is wanted
◾️distinctive - Something that is distinctive is easy to recognize because it is different from other things
◾️signature - used to refer to the special thing for which a person or place is particularly known
◾️tilt - to (cause to) move into a sloping position
◾️in favor - to sb’s advantage
◾️ahead - in front
◾️dog-eat-dog - used to describe a situation in which people will do anything to be successful, even if what they do harms other people
◾️competence - the ability to do something well
◾️promote - to raise someone to a higher or more important position or rank
◾️credit - praise, approval, or honour
◾️cutthroat - not involving considering or worrying about any harm caused to others
◾️cautious - Someone who is cautious avoids risks
◾️look out for sb/sth - to try to notice someone or something; to watch what is happening and be careful
~ Synonyms ~
conventional - traditional, common
succeed - achieve, accomplish
depend on - rely on, reckon
approach - deal with
interaction - communication, cooperation
claim - demand, assert, declare
contribute - provide, share
groundbreaking - revolutionary, innovative
dramatically - completely, definitely, seriously
reciprocity - cooperation, exchange
desired - want, crave
distinctive - different, unique
signature - sign, mark
tilt - incline, lean, attack
favor - approval, benefit
ahead - forward, in front
dog-eat-dog - viciously competitive, aggressive, cutthroat
competence - ability, capability
promote - advance, develop, raise
credit - attention, approval, credence
cutthroat - ruthless, vicious
cautious - careful, circumspect
look out - be alert, beware
List of new words P2
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◾️relatively - quite good, bad, etc. in comparison with other similar things or with what you expect
◾️breed - a type of person
◾️whereas - compared with the fact that; but
◾️evaluate - to judge or calculate the quality, importance, amount, or value of something
◾️distinguish -to judge or calculate the quality, importance, amount, or value of something
◾️donate - to give money or goods to help a person or organization
◾️charity - an organization whose purpose is to give money, food, or help to those who need it, or to carry out activities such as medical research that will help people in need, and not to make a profit
◾️command - to deserve and receive because of special qualities or actions, to deserve and get something good, such as attention, respect, or a lot of money
◾️rather - used to express an opposite opinion
◾️attitude - a feeling or opinion about something or someone, or a way of behaving that is caused by this
◾️outweigh - to be greater or more important than something else
◾️analysis - the act of analysing something
◾️exceed - to be greater than a number or amount, or to go past an allowed limit
◾️alternatively - used to suggest another possibility
◾️strive to - to try very hard to do something or to make something happen, especially for a long time or against difficulties
◾️generous - willing to give money, help, kindness, etc., especially more than is usual or expected
◾️benefit (from) - to be helped by something or to help someone
◾️require - to need something or make something necessary
◾️extraordinary - very unusual, special, unexpected, or strange
◾️sacrifice - the act of giving up something that is valuable to you in order to help someone else
◾️provide - to give someone something that they need
~ Synonyms ~
relatively - almost, approximately
breed - kind, type, class
whereas - although, but
evaluate - judge, figure out
distinguish - analyze, categorize
donate - give, provide, contribute
charity - donation, fund
command - demand, call for, require
rather - alternatively
attitude - manner, reaction, approach, opinion
outweigh - exceed, prevail, surpass
analysis - search, study, investigation
exceed - surpass, eclipse
alternatively - rather, preferably
strive to - try, aim, endeavor
generous - big-hearted
benefit - enhance, help, contribute to
require - need, crave, demand
extraordinary - amazing, outstanding
sacrifice - giving up
provide - give, supply, serve