Get Happier, Help Others: Some Good Ideas About Giving
Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
Pushkin Industries
4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
It's the season of giving: colorful paper and shiny bows, sure, and charitable giving, too. In this special episode, Jacob Goldstein, the host of What's Your Problem, gets smart about donating.
Did you know that spending money on others makes you happier than spending money on yourself? Or that altruistic nerds have discovered four of the most impactful charities in the world (per dollar spent)? Have you ever wondered how poker players think about giving?
Dr. Laurie Santos from The Happiness Lab, Elie Hassenfeld of GiveWell, and Nate Silver and Maria Konnikova from Risky Business talk about how to maximize your giving – and why you’ll be happy you did.
Link to donate: https://givingmultiplier.org/happinesslab
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin. |
| 0:08.8 | Once upon a time, Amazon Music met audiobooks, and listeners everywhere rejoiced. |
| 0:14.9 | Oh, yeah. |
| 0:15.7 | Because now they could listen to one audiobook title a month from an enormous library of popular audiobook titles, including Romantasy, autobiographies, true crime, and more. |
| 0:28.4 | Suddenly listeners didn't mind sitting in traffic or even missing their flight. |
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| 0:34.9 | No way. |
| 0:35.5 | Download the Amazon Music app now to start listening. |
| 0:38.3 | Terms apply. |
| 0:40.7 | Hello, Tim Harford here. |
| 0:42.8 | It's a giving time of year. |
| 0:44.9 | The kind of giving that means wrapping paper and shiny bows, certainly, but people also |
| 0:49.9 | give to good causes. |
| 0:51.4 | At least, we hope they're good causes, but how can we be sure they're the |
| 0:55.4 | best causes? In this special episode, Jacob Goldstein, the host of Pushkin's What's Your Problem, |
| 1:02.0 | is trying to help us figure out how to get the most good out of our donations. He starts off |
| 1:08.1 | talking with Dr. Laurie Santos of the Happiness Lab about the good that giving does for the donors. |
| 1:15.0 | I'll be back again soon with another episode of cautionary tales, but while you wait, I hope you enjoy this extra conversation. |
| 1:24.4 | I'm Jacob Goldstein. I host a Pushkin podcast called What's Your Problem? And I am here randomly |
| 1:30.2 | talking to you right now because today is the day before Giving Tuesday. Giving Tuesday, as you |
| 1:37.3 | may already know, is the Tuesday after Thanksgiving. And it's supposed to be the day we give money |
| 1:42.9 | to charity. And I'm going to be honest with you. |
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