The "Giver’s Glow": How Volunteering Can Improve Your Health (Stephen Post, PhD)

Like Mind, Like Body

Curable Inc.

Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.7 • 768 Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2017

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Is giving really receiving in disguise? According to Dr. Stephen Post, best-selling author of “Why Good Things Happen To Good People,” that’s usually the case. He says we’re biologically hard-wired to flourish when we’re contributing to the community, and the research backs him up. Join us as Dr. Post discusses the health benefits of giving, how much is too much, and why the rules are different for people in caring professions.

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0:00.0	One year we had the former editor there and he spent all his time correcting the manuscripts
0:07.0	of younger scholars. And I said, you know, you're an incredible altruist. He said, oh no, don't
0:12.5	call me an altruist because I like what I'm doing. Well, I mean, I guess my point is that
0:18.6	we're hardwired to have internal benefits from giving.
0:22.6	And if altruism means that there's no internal benefit at all, or else it's not really generous,
0:29.5	then that's for a different species, not for us. This is like mind, like body, a podcast about the crazy ways our thoughts and feelings can actually shape our physical health.
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