Expecting Thanks, Finding Disappointment
Rethinking the Nature of Generosity
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9 min readMay 13, 2024
Have you ever given a gift to a person, only to have them respond with indifference or ungratefulness? Perhaps you put a lot of thought into it, or maybe it cost you a great deal of money. And yet, when you present the gift, the response you get is lukewarm or worse.