Jason Geller The Giver Analysis

After reading “the question: do you agree with Jason Geller that when individuals receive help, they should ‘pay it forward’”, I agree with him because I recently read the book Give and Take. The giver who pays the support is a smart giver, but the giver who only pays it back may become a doormat. The reading quotation describes that Geller received much help from others to reach his goal. He was not a taker even though he did not pay the help he received back. He was a successful giver instead. He knew how to become successful clearly. He said, “You see that the folks who are successful are the one who help others.” Geller goes on to say, “I now work very hard to create opportunities for other people.” What he did was helping other people and teaching other people how to do better instead of
paying it back to those people who helped him. The results show that Geller was totally right that he made great success at Deloitte. There is also an opposite example that explains what will happen if one person only knows to pay the support back.
Lillian Bauer, the person described by Adam Grant in the book Give and Take, was a doormat in her life. Bauer was a giver like Geller but they had different thoughts about how to be a giver. Bauer thought if she could pay the support back as much as she could, she would get success in the end but the truth showed that she was wrong. She used all her time and energy to help her clients without gaining benefits for many years. In the end, she got nothing and she wasted much of her time. She became the doormat to the takers. From my observations, I think we should pay support forward indeed. Just like relationships between the teachers in the school and us. Teachers teach us much knowledge and how to be good people. They spend much of their time and energy leading us. We thank teacher very much, however we should not pay the knowledge back to teacher, instead we should pay them forward. We can use the knowledge to make the country better and make our lives better. If we only pay the knowledge back to teachers, we will waste our money and make the teachers
fail. From the contrast between Geller and Bauer, I find that the person who only pays support back gets bad results but the person who pays them forward succeeds. This is my evidence to prove that I agree with Jason Geller’s idea that we should “pay it forward”.