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#228 — Doing Good

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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The Psychology of Giving Ten Percent of Your Income Away

There's no point on the continuum of earning where, if you're of a certain frame of mind, it's going to seem like a goldilock's valueis too poor or too rich. You can recognize that however much money you're making, you can always give ten per cent to the most effective ways of alleviating suffering. Once you have this epiphany, you can always find those ten per cent at every point. If you earn thirty y five thousand dollars, which we would not think of as being a rich person, even after donating ten per cent, still biin the ritchs five per cent of the world's population. And learning those facts was very motivating for

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