780 Help Others and Yourself with Will MacAskill

The School of Greatness

Lewis Howes

Mindset, Relationships, Entrepreneurship, Mental Health, Education, Greatness, Fitness, Celebrity, Health, Inspiration, Success, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Business, Money, Self Care, Celebrity Interview

4.8 • 22K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2019

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

DO GOOD ALL THE TIME. Some people have an idea of giving that is not sustainable. You can’t self-sacrifice endlessly to help others. You also have to take care of yourself. Giving can be a win/win situation. In fact, it should be. Helping the world is only worth it if you are also helping yourself. For this Five Minute Friday, I revisited a conversation I had with Will Macaskill where he shared this idea as one of his principles of effective altruism. William MacAskill is a philosopher, ethicist, and one of the originators of the effective altruism movement. He is an Associate Professor in Philosophy and Research Fellow at the Global Priorities Institute, University of Oxford. He is also the co-founder and president of 80,000 Hours, the co-founder and vice-president of Giving What We Can, and the co-founder of the Centre for Effective Altruism. Learn how to help others in the most meaningful way in Episode 780. In This Episode You Will Learn: One of the core principles of effective altruism (2:00) How to create a win/win while making an impact (3:00) Why additional income doesn’t make you happier (4:00) How to give without sacrificing a lot (5:00) Follow me on: instagram: @lewishowes twitter: @lewishowes

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0:00.0	This is 5 Minute Friday!
0:04.6	Our guest today is Jack Canfield.
0:12.9	Now Jack is an incredible guy.
0:14.6	I've had him on before.
0:15.8	There was an extremely successful episode.
0:18.4	We'll have that linked up as well.
0:20.3	And he knows what motivates drives and inspires people to do the impossible.
0:26.2	He's a Harvard graduate with a master's degree in psychological education and one of the
0:30.5	earliest champions of peak performance.
0:33.2	He's also the co-founder of the Chicken Soup for the Soul Book Series and author of the
0:37.8	Success Principles.
0:39.5	The problem with rehab is that you've got to, well, first of all, AA, somewhere about
0:49.4	a 20% if you can believe a statistic recovery.
0:53.1	Only 20% of people go keep going.
0:54.7	And that number is suspect because we don't know how clear it is.
1:01.6	But let's give it to them.
1:03.4	Rehab 15 to 30% and that's also suspect because there's no real long-term long-term
1:08.5	recovery.
1:09.5	15 to 20% recover.
1:11.5	Rehab.
1:12.5	But we have 80%.
1:14.7	79.5% to be exact recovery rate after five years still sober from the first coaching program.
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