Why helping people makes you happy | Asha Curran

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🗓️ 14 December 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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"We underestimate the power of our own generous actions," says Asha Curran, CEO of the global generosity movement GivingTuesday. Sharing stories of people making a difference through simple acts of kindness, she shows how generosity, even in its simplest forms, can be a transformative force — and explains why we all benefit from a world grounded in giving.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective.
0:02.0	Audio Collective.
0:04.0	I'm Elise Hugh, you're listening to Ted Talks Daily.
0:12.0	Black Friday and Cyber Monday are followed by a day of generosity,
0:16.7	Giving Tuesday.
0:18.5	And the idea for this day has now expanded to a global movement.
0:22.8	In her 2023 talk from Ted's infectious generosity event,
0:26.6	Asha Currant, the CEO of Giving Tuesday,
0:29.6	shares what she's learned about generosity,
0:32.1	what it is, and the powerful things it can accomplish after the break.
0:38.8	Our lives are made up of small moments and small decisions.
0:45.4	Left or right, walk or drive, eat in or take out,
0:50.9	lend a helping hand or some words of encouragement or an offer of support to a neighbor,
0:58.3	a colleague, a stranger.
1:02.0	Some of these decisions are not like the others.
1:05.0	And with the world in this much pain,
1:08.0	it might seem futile to be focusing on those kinds of micro decisions.
1:14.0	But the truth is that we underestimate the power of our own generous actions.
1:21.6	Every time we intentionally choose generosity,
1:26.7	the effects of that choice are more powerful
1:30.7	and more far-reaching than we might think.
1:33.9	The truth is that what one person can accomplish is enormous.
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