5 Laws to be a Giver and be Successful — Lessons from “The Go-Giver”

It is very possible to become extremely successful while being a giver. The book “The Go-Giver” by Bob Burg and John David Mann tells us the right ways to do it. Here are some of my lessons from reading it.

The law of value. My true worth is determined by how much more I give in value than I take in payment, and this extra value is made from love and passion.

The law of compensation. The compensation is directly proportional to how many lives I can serve. For example, the free of copying nature of software enables it to serve so many people at the same time, and the software boom has proved the law of compensation.

The law of influence. My influence is determined by how abundantly I place other people’s interests first. And to truly place other people first, I should stop keep track of scores, and I should personally invest in the other person’s success.

The law of authenticity. The most valuable gift that I can offer is myself. This is because ‘myself’ is the 90% of things that touch people, and things that I try to pretend and things that I learned but not become apart of me yet can only count for the last 10%.

The law of receptivity. The key to effective giving is to stay open, to receive. Same thing as a mentorship. For a mentee, he should never be shy about receiving. Only this way he can grow to be strong enough to give back, pass on the knowledge, and enlarge the overall flow of knowledge.

The full circle. The five laws are not independent rules or ‘plan of actions’ for me to just follow and do things and see good results, they are qualities that I absorb in and make it who I am — a go-giver. Then it is ‘who I am’ that allows me to see the world differently, and the success will come to me.

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