#221 Happiness - Finding More Happiness in Giving than Receiving
Happiness Podcast
Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 955 Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2019
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Is it better to give or to receive? Well, when it comes to happiness, giving wins. We examine the research findings of a study published in 2018 in Psychological Science entitled, " Impediments to Effective Altruism: The Role of Subjective Preferences ins Charitable Giving," by J. Berman, A. Barasch, E. Levine, & D. Small. To learn more about the Happiness Podcast, go to: http://www.HappinessPodcast.org. To learn more about Dr. Puff's Corporate Workshops, go to: http://www.SuccessBeyondYourImagination.com
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. I live in Southern California and about an hour and a half drive from my home is a place called Rodeo Drive. |
| 0:20.0 | It's a shopping area, actually a street that has most, if not all, of some of the expensive, you may have heard of them, exclusive designers that are out there, like Prada, Gucci, and so on. Well my kids who are teenagers now know a lot more about these |
| 0:37.5 | labels than I do, so they wanted to go up there for the day and have a look around. |
| 0:41.3 | When we got there, not only did they know a lot more |
| 0:44.9 | at the store than I did, they also knew a lot more of the people that were walking around |
| 0:48.7 | than I did. They would say, Dad, did you see that person? Dad, did you see that person? |
| 0:54.0 | I had no idea who they were talking about or who they were. |
| 0:57.0 | But the stores were pretty impressive, |
| 1:00.0 | though the price tag on their items were |
| 1:02.0 | something that could take your breath away. |
| 1:05.0 | Though I may not know designer labials very well, I do understand human behavior quite well. |
| 1:11.0 | And though some people were spending an awful lot of money, I didn't see a lot of what I would call happiness there. |
| 1:17.0 | Not that everyone there was unhappy. It's just that it wasn't creating necessarily a lot of happiness in and of itself. |
| 1:24.0 | Thrills perhaps excitement, but lasting happiness, I'm not sure. |
| 1:29.0 | But I haven't always been exempt from the materialistic trappings of our world. I remember when I turned |
| 1:36.1 | 40, perhaps not too long ago. I decided that this was a big accomplishment, so I was going to buy myself something big and for me that wasn't |
| 1:45.6 | going to be a designer item that was going to be a telescope. So I spent probably a good part of the |
| 1:51.4 | year researching the different telescopes, seeing the benefits |
| 1:54.9 | and qualities of each one, and I decided on a 12-inch mee telescope. And I can't even recount |
| 2:02.3 | how many times I kept looking up that telescope, savoring over how |
| 2:06.5 | great it was going to be in all the stars and galaxies I was going to get observed with my |
| 2:10.9 | new 12-inch telescope. Well, when my 40th birthday came, I was excited and I got my |
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