Giving Can Make Us Happier

Kind World

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4.7 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Science says giving can make us happier than having more money. Psychologist Dr. Elizabeth Dunn suggests ways to rethink the way we give in order to make it feel like a source of joy rather than an obligation.

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0:00.0	Produced by the I-Lab at W-B-U-R, Boston.
0:05.0	Welcome to Kind World.
0:10.0	I'm Andrea Aswahi.
0:11.0	And I'm Yasminammer.
0:13.0	Andrea, did you ever watch the show Friends?
0:15.2	Yeah, I watch it occasionally.
0:17.2	Yeah, no, I was a casual viewer too.
0:19.5	But this one episode always sticks out of my mind.
0:23.0	Whoa, whoa, whoa, what about you having those babies for your brother?
0:27.1	Talk about selfish.
0:28.1	What are you talking about?
0:32.1	Well, yeah, it was a really nice thing and all, but it made you feel really good, right?
0:36.0	Yeah, so.
0:37.0	Well, it made you feel good, so that makes it selfish.
0:40.0	Look, there's no unselfish good deed, sorry.
0:44.0	You know, I was never a huge Friends fan, but I actually remember this one.
0:49.0	Phoebe spends the whole episode trying to do a good deed that won't make her feel good to
0:54.9	prove to Joey that he was wrong but she never manages to do it. You know that really
0:59.8	old guy that lives next door to me? Well I snuck over there and and raked up all the leaves on his friend stoop
1:05.0	but he caught me and he like force-fed me cider and cookies.
1:11.0	And then I felt wonderful.
1:12.0	That old jackass.
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