The most effect way of tickling someone is to sneak up on them and do it without them knowing it’s coming. While I don’t advocate doing this to a stranger, you likely have a loved one in your life where this is useful advice.
Just like tickling someone else, your acts of altruism are most effective when you sneak up on the person to present it.
Your spouse or significant other is romantically moved when you shower them with cards and flowers when they least expect them.
Your compliments have a special meaning when you give them without any sort of solicitation.
And, the referrals you give, the information you share, and the business contacts you create for others go from ordinary gestures to extraordinary acts of altruism when you do them without any sort of prompting. So, don’t wait to be asked to do anything. Just sneak up and do it without them knowing it’s coming.
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