Post by comet on Jan 7, 2010 17:13:10 GMT
Pay it Forward
05/13/08 at 19:29:16
I am curious if any of our members have been involved in this phenomenon. Either as giver or receiver ?
The story of Trevor McKinney........Pay It Forward By Catherine Ryan Hyde
Reuben St. Clair, the teacher and protagonist in the book “Pay It Forward,” starts a movement
with this voluntary, extra-credit assignment: THINK OF AN IDEA FOR WORLD CHANGE, AND PUT IT INTO ACTION.
Trevor, the 12-year-old hero of “Pay It Forward,” thinks of quite an idea.
He describes it to his mother and teacher this way: "You see, I do something real good for three people.
And then when they ask how they can pay it back, I say they have to Pay It Forward. To three more people. Each.
So nine people get helped. Then those people have to do twenty-seven."
He turned on the calculator, punched in a few numbers. "Then it sort of spreads out, see. To eighty-one.
Then two hundred forty-three.
Then seven hundred twenty-nine. Then two thousand, one hundred eighty-seven. See how big it gets?"
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Some of you may have seen the film or read the book.
I am wondering did any of you attempt to put this into practice or action ?
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A quote from Wiki
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In 2000, Catherine Ryan Hyde's novel Pay It Forward was published and adapted into a Warner Brothers film, Pay It Forward. In Ryan Hyde's book and movie it is described as an obligation to do three good deeds for others in repayment of a good deed that one receives. Such good deeds should be things that the other person cannot accomplish on their own. In this way, the need to help one another can spread exponentially through society, creating a social movement with the goal of making the world a better place.
05/13/08 at 19:29:16
I am curious if any of our members have been involved in this phenomenon. Either as giver or receiver ?
The story of Trevor McKinney........Pay It Forward By Catherine Ryan Hyde
Reuben St. Clair, the teacher and protagonist in the book “Pay It Forward,” starts a movement
with this voluntary, extra-credit assignment: THINK OF AN IDEA FOR WORLD CHANGE, AND PUT IT INTO ACTION.
Trevor, the 12-year-old hero of “Pay It Forward,” thinks of quite an idea.
He describes it to his mother and teacher this way: "You see, I do something real good for three people.
And then when they ask how they can pay it back, I say they have to Pay It Forward. To three more people. Each.
So nine people get helped. Then those people have to do twenty-seven."
He turned on the calculator, punched in a few numbers. "Then it sort of spreads out, see. To eighty-one.
Then two hundred forty-three.
Then seven hundred twenty-nine. Then two thousand, one hundred eighty-seven. See how big it gets?"
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Some of you may have seen the film or read the book.
I am wondering did any of you attempt to put this into practice or action ?
...........................
A quote from Wiki
.............................
In 2000, Catherine Ryan Hyde's novel Pay It Forward was published and adapted into a Warner Brothers film, Pay It Forward. In Ryan Hyde's book and movie it is described as an obligation to do three good deeds for others in repayment of a good deed that one receives. Such good deeds should be things that the other person cannot accomplish on their own. In this way, the need to help one another can spread exponentially through society, creating a social movement with the goal of making the world a better place.
And I try to use this principle whenever I can. Steve, even if the most deserving are "dead ends" (which they aren't), I see no problem in just doing it anyway. Only good can come of it. 
