Why Giving is a Great Daily Habit

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

Pushkin Industries

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 14.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

It's Giving Tuesday - a time when many people donate to charity (using websites like this: givingmultiplier.org/happiness). Giving money to help people makes them feel good, but it can also make you feel great too. Last year, Happiness Lab listeners gave over $100,000 to raise a whole village in Rwanda out of extreme poverty. Dr Laurie hears the stories of how we all helped transform lives in Kibobo.

With the aid of happiness expert, Nick Epley, we explain why helping Kibobo felt so uplifting and how we can make the act of giving a daily happiness habit.

If you want to donate money to help people in places like Kibobo - or give to any other charity you care to support - go to givingmultiplier.org/happiness.

This episode of The Happiness Lab on the joy of giving is brought to you by the 2024 Subaru Share the Love Event. From now until January 2nd, when you get a new Subaru, Subaru and its retailers will donate a minimum of $300 to charity.

To learn more, go to Subaru.com/share.

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0:00.0	Pushkin.
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0:42.3	Hey, Happiness Lab listeners.
0:44.1	Welcome to an episode brought to you by the 2024 Subaru Share the Love event.
0:48.6	And I'm pretty excited because today is one of my favorite holidays, Giving Tuesday.
0:53.5	Giving Tuesday is the one day of the year that
0:55.6	focuses on giving back, whether that's gifting money to your favorite charity, checking in on a friend,
1:01.1	or doing a random act of kindness for a stranger. Study after study shows that engaging in actions
1:06.5	like these can have a big impact on our happiness. And that's the reason we tend to make a big deal out of Giving Tuesday mirror at the Happiness
1:13.8	Lab.
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