pretty sure I help coworkers with nonsense every single day 😂

Honestly, I tend to help out quite often, and I say frequently because it's something that happens to me almost daily during my work days. Very simple and small things, like helping a lady get on or off public transportation when she's carrying her shopping cart or packages. Helping people who are lost about which direction to take to get somewhere. Or something else that happens to me a lot is helping people by telling them which public transportation route is best for them to use depending on where they're going. I meet a lot of people who aren't very familiar with public transportation routes. Aside from that, I'm not the one who helps others the most, but I'm always willing to lend a hand if the situation requires it.

Let me just put it this way. If you aren't helping someone every day... I'm not sure what you are doing with your life.

We are not meant to live alone. Humans need community and community involves helping others. We all can help others and will all need help from time to time.

Yes, helping others does feel good. Not always though. Some people are not grateful or thankful. But, I have found that joy can be found in doing almost any task.

I really think that some of the depression we see in people today is due to selfishness. Not being connected to communities and therefore focusing more inwardly instead of outwardly. Even just having a job that you go to each day can help. That is, if you put your best effort into that job. If you just half-ass it... you know it and it will be a drag. Seek to do good work.

I was riding down a trail and another rider said "you aren't going that way" as I noticed a tree down across the path. Rather than turn around I started trying to move the fallen tree. The next few guys that arrived all started to help and with 5 guys we all moved the tree out of the way and went on about our rides. It felt pretty good to fix something so quickly

I helped a young, tiny, attractive woman with two suitcases on the staircase.. but that was all of it unfortunately.

Made me feel masculine and chivalrous.

almost every day, i'm sitting with people to listen to their challenges... this is not my professional day-job, but i get a lot of requests from my community

I helped a guy trying to get a small fridge into his car at Home Depot the other day. He definitely did not plan that out.

Yes it was nice to help someone who needed a hand.

I mean, every single day... in some sense "work" is helping someone else (unless you work a bullshit job or you're a government employee... sorry for repeating myself).

As an act of kindness/old lady across the street? No clue. (you could call me dogsitting for over a week being helpful! #929023)

Today. Helped 2 junior colleagues.

With one, it felt good as we reasoned together to a solution he could not have figured out on his own.

With one, it felt bad as she took away some of my own focused time for something trivial that she could have figured out herself without bothering me.

It depends what do you mean on "helping someone"... I help peoples almost every day with advices, or with physical work (to moving furniture, reparing something, etc)...BUT...I almost never help with money (I very rarely lend money to anyone, and I almost never give it to people who beg on the street). For me is a natural thing to help someone, because I know when I need, they help me back (not all, but the majority). But this is not a "trade-off"...I help without compromises, I don't expect anything in return, but it would be nice if you helped me in return.

My favorite form of helping is helping other founders, because I'm not very far along myself and I learn a lot about myself in the process. The trade-offs are mostly: