Facebook: Where Generosity Goes to Die

Last week, I offered people something extraordinary: a chance to experience ten chapters of my new book celebrating the 100 greatest athletes of all time. The stories were completely free in the form of an online mini-course.

These athletes are legends who inspire greatness, resilience, and success.

But instead of excitement, admiration, or curiosity, what did I get?

Chaos. Complaints. Endless negativity.

No one even stopped to look at the full list of 100 athletes. No one said, “Wow, what a tribute to greatness!” Instead, they nitpicked, argued, and threw around entitled nonsense like it was their life’s work.

They fixated on the ten free chapters like it was a crime.

“Why LeBron and not Jordan, you moron?”

“How can a swimmer, Michael Phelps, be in the top ten?”

“This list has no credibility without Wilt Chamberlin.”

“You obviously know nothing about sports!”

There were hundreds of comments arguing about who should be in the top ten, which I chose at random. Many more of the comments…