How to Experience the Joy of Giving Right Now: A Giving Tuesday Special from The Happiness Lab
12/2/202548 min
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. And the first $500,000 we donate will be matched thanks to our friends at Giving Multiplier!
Even a small dona...
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First 90 secondsLaurie Santos· Host0:00
This is an iHeart podcast. Guaranteed Human. [upbeat music] Pushkin. [upbeat music] Hello, and welcome to a special edition of the Happiness Lab Podcast. I hope all my listeners who celebrate had a happy Thanksgiving, but the day I really look forward to each November is the Tuesday after Thanksgiving. Forget Black Friday and Cyber Monday. My holiday of choice is Giving Tuesday. Giving Tuesday is the global holiday of charitable giving that falls right in the midst of our shopping frenzy, a day that's not about commerce, but compassion. Here at the Happiness Lab, we tend to make a big deal out of Giving Tuesday. Every year we share a special episode that explores why doing good for others is super good for our own happiness. We also like to give our listeners a chance to team up and donate to a charitable cause that really does good in the world. For the past few years, that charity has been GiveDirectly, a nonprofit that takes your cash and gives it directly to people in extreme poverty to spend as they see fit, but this year we are going even bigger. We're bringing together the fans of some of my favorite podcasts to raise even more money to fight poverty. Think 10% Happier with Dan Harris, On Purpose with Jay Shetty, Revisionist History, Hidden Brain, How to Be a Better Human, and dozens more. The campaign