The answer, of course: What is TED. Rich and poor, left and right, we all agree the world should be more equal. Dan Ariely and Michael Norton have spent the past decade analyzing the data. Now, they tackle what to do next. Picture three people splitting an 8-piece pizza. How should they divide it? The possibilities are endless, from the very unequitable -- one person eats the who Behavioral economist Dan Ariely points out the surprising joy and engagement we feel when we make things.
We are the CEOs of our own lives. We work hard to spur ourselves to get up and go to work and do what we must do day after day. We also try to encourage people to work for and with us. We do this in our personal lives, too: from a very youn Share this: Twitter Facebook. Like this: Like Loading Ze Frank: Are you human?
Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Email required Address never made public. Name required. Follow Following. Watch TED Talks. Elizabeth Dunn Happiness researcher. TED Speaker Personal profile. Elizabeth Dunn discovers ways that people can optimize their use of time, money and technology in order to maximize their own happiness. Here's a guy from Canada. Very similar thing. We went to a movie, we left early, and then went back to her room for Human universal: you spend money on others, you're being nice.
Maybe you have something in mind, maybe not. But then we see extraordinary differences. So look at these two. This is a woman from Canada. We say, "Name a time you spent money on somebody else. I drove to the mall, bought a present, gave it to my mom. It's good to get gifts for people you know. Compare that to this woman from Uganda: "I was walking and met a longtime friend whose son was sick with malaria. They had no money, they went to a clinic and I gave her this money.
So it's a very small amount of money, in fact. But enormously different motivations here. This is a real medical need, literally a lifesaving donation. Above, it's just kind of, I bought a gift for my mother.
What we see again, though, is that the specific way you spend on other people isn't nearly as important as the fact that you spend on other people in order to make yourself happy, which is really quite important. So you don't have to do amazing things with your money to make yourself happy.
You can do small, trivial things and still get the benefits from doing this. These are only two countries. We wanted to look at every country in the world if we could, to see what the relationship is between money and happiness. We got data from the Gallup Organization, which you know from all the political polls happening lately. They asked people, "Did you donate money to charity recently?
Are they positively correlated, giving money makes you happy? Or are they negatively correlated? On this map, green will mean they're positively correlated, red means they're negatively correlated. And you can see, the world is crazily green. So in almost every country in the world where we have this data, people who give money to charity are happier people than people who don't give money to charity.
I know you're looking at the red country in the middle. I would be a jerk and not tell you what it is, but it's Central African Republic. You can make up stories. Maybe it's different there for some reason.
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