
#228 - Doing Good
Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content
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The Importance of Public Commitments
Donating is much like paying your pension or something you might think oh I really ought to do but it's just hard to get motivated by and so we need to exploit our own irrationality. Public commitments are a really big thing now, there's no way I'm backing out of my altruism now right too much of my identities uh about up in that now. In a coming chapter here I want to push back a little bit on how you are personally approaching giving because I think I have some rival intuitions here that I want to see how they survive contact with your sense of how you should live.
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