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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 buck,
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.
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 you don't know but you were actually featured in a recent episode of this episode on on fun and moments of peak fun in my life But do you remember our 80s singalong that we did we say?
Well, it's most funny.
Yeah,
it's like I wasn't drinking but it probably seemed
like I was for this giving Tuesday bonus episode of the happiness lab I spoke with Josh about what we should keep in mind