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Hey, happiness lab listeners. Today is Giving Tuesday, a day where you're supposed to think

more about charitable giving. Being generous can give a big boost to our well-being. That

said, I don't normally make donations to a good cause just to make myself feel happier.

But I do sometimes wonder if I'm getting the most bank for my book, both in terms of

how much good my gift is doing in the world, and in terms of how much of a happiness boost

I'm getting in return.

The reason why we're spending money on charity, let's say, is because we really want to help

and we want to do some good. And very few of us would say, well, I want to do good but

not that much good.

This is my friend and colleague Josh Green, a professor of psychology at Harvard University,

where he studies how our brains make moral decisions.

But before I launched into this episode with Josh, he and I had a little catching up

to do.

Josh, you don't know, but you were actually featured in a recent episode.

This is this episode on fun and moments of peak fun in my life.

You thought of me and I fun?

My goodness.

But do you remember our 80s sing along that we did? We say,

Bajo V and that's just...

Well, it smells funny. Yeah, I was like, I wasn't drinking, but it probably seemed like

I was.

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