As word spread of his generosity, the requests for advice ballooned.
Today's troubadours also play in exchange for their audience's generosity, and requesting donations is not illegal.
Our lender, a major player in New York real estate, feigned generosity by requesting only a 10percentt down payment, then hedged its bets by requiring liens on two of our other properties.
Successful people get lots of requests for favors, so generosity catches them off guard.
As the Huffington Post reports, Canadian ISP Teksavvy (who is famous for their bandwidth generosity) received a request from Voltage Pictures to obtain the personal information from "2,000 IP addresses" that it claims downloaded their content illegally.
Giftster.com, for example, allows you to "rate items to see what is most wanted, add links to your favorite stores, and post your preferred colors, sizes and activities". God forbid someone show you generosity you didn't explicitly request.
Before approving the payment, one Hahn appointee to the utility's board called the request "an abuse of this department's generosity".
His success at prompting generosity from classmates led to requests for him to take on bigger assignments, and in 1991 he was named chairman of Dartmouth's $425 million capital campaign.
Bobbitt, McClure and McClure's then-boyfriend, Mark D'Amico, took photos of themselves together at a gas station and posted about the feel-good story on social media, requesting donations to reward Bobbitt for his generosity.
I have a request -- please watch the following two videos about generosity.
Dichter, the chief innovation officer at the Acumen Fund, embarked on a monthlong generosity experiment in which he said yes to every request for help that he received.
