How to Experience the Joy of Giving Right Now: A Giving Tuesday Special from The Happiness Lab

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Pushkin Industries

Business, Society & Culture, Sports

4.6 • 9.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

According to the science, it really is better to give than receive. Donating a dollar; sharing a kind word or lending someone a hand changes lives, but can also hugely boost your happiness. So we're teaming up with other podcasts from Hidden Brain to Revisionist History to ask you to give to a charity helping some of the poorest people around. We're calling it #PodsFightPoverty.

Go to givedirectly.org/happinesslab right now and give whatever you can.

Even a small donation will make you feel good and have a much larger impact on the world than you thought possible. To help inspire you, this special episode examines the science of giving and shares stories of heartwarming and impactful acts of kindness.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.3	Guaranteed Human.
0:04.4	I'm Jonathan Goldstein, and on the new season of heavyweight,
0:08.3	I help a centenarian mend a broken heart.
0:11.2	How can a 101-year-old woman fall in love again?
0:18.4	And I help a man atone for an armed robbery he committed at 14 years old.
0:24.0	And so I pointed the gun at him and said this isn't a joke.
0:29.1	And he got down, and I remember feeling kind of a surge of like, okay, this is power.
0:33.8	Plus, my old friend Gregor and his brother try to solve my problems
0:37.6	through hypnotism.
0:39.5	We could give you a whole brand new thing
0:40.9	where you're like super charming all the time.
0:42.9	Being more able to look people in the eyes.
0:44.9	Not always hide behind a microphone.
0:47.3	Listen to heavyweight wherever you get your podcasts.
0:50.0	Music Hello, Pushkin.
1:07.5	Hello and welcome to a special edition of the Happiness Lab podcast.
1:13.3	I hope all my listeners who celebrate had a happy Thanksgiving.
1:17.7	But the day I really look forward to each November is the Tuesday after Thanksgiving.
1:22.7	Forget Black Friday and Cyber Monday. My holiday of choice is Giving Tuesday.
1:29.6	Giving Tuesday is the global holiday of charitable giving that falls right in the midst of our shopping frenzy, a day that's not
1:34.7	about commerce, but compassion. Here at the Happiness Lab, we tend to make a big deal out of
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