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receive anything in return for what you are willing to give.
Gene Stone • Love Is the Killer App: How to Win Business and Influence Friends
3-2-1: On saving money, controlling your anger, and what love looks like
Boosters in a game, where a player obtains something to help them achieve the win-state effectively.
Yu-kai Chou • Actionable Gamification: Beyond Points, Badges, and Leaderboards
Generosity wins favour for every one, especially when it is accompanied by modesty.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe • Maxims and Reflections
Free Lunch (Game Technique #24) Along the lines of the “Calling” theme, giving freebies (that are normally not free) to selected people in such a way that it binds them to a larger theme can make customers feel special and encourage them to take further action.
Yu-kai Chou • Actionable Gamification: Beyond Points, Badges, and Leaderboards
No, you don't owe me a favor
None of us are saints, but we can all try to be better. Each time you do something generous, you're shaping yourself into someone who's more likely to be generous next time, and that matters.
Ted Chiang • Exhalation: Stories
The greatest reward for our hard work is not what we get, but what we will become.