LADIES! DON'T ACCEPT FREE DRINKS/Reciprocity /Chap 6

I would like to always give Thanks to our Creator...

 

UNFORTUNATELY,



 

this kind of gentle blackmail----you could invites a potential customer to join him at a big sports game. A month later, it's time to order screws. The desire not to be in debt is so strong that the buyer gives in and places an order with his new friend. Reciprocity is a very useful survival strategy, a form of risk management. Without it, humanity------and countless species of animal-----would be long extinct. It is at the core of cooperation between people (who are not related) and a necessary ingredient for economic growth and wealth creation. There would be no global economy without it---there would be no economy at all. That's the good side of reciprocity.

   But there is also an ugly side of reciprocity: retaliation. Revenge breeds counter-revenge, and you soon find yourself in a full-scale war. Jesus preached that we should break this cycle by turning the other cheek, which proves very difficult to do, so compelling is the pull of reciprocity even when the stakes are far less high.

EXAMPLE:

 

Couples: Have you ever got invited to a dinner and you knew the other couple for quite sometime? ok. They were nice but not too entertaining. You can't think of an good excuse to get out the dinner party so you go, and it's what you expected, tedious. But you feel obliged to invite them to an event later down the line. This is the constraint of reciprocity had now presented itself with another wearisome evening.

 

 

In much the same way, if someone approaches you in the supermarket, whether to offer you a taste of wine, a chunk of cheese, or a handful of olives, my best advice is to refuse their offer-unless you want to end up with a refrigerator full of stuff you don't even like.

 

 

Thank you for a wonderful night you good people and please leave you comments. I would love to hear them.