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Does working hard really make you a good person? | Azim Shariff

TED Talks Daily

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The Mental Circuit That Connects Effort to Morality

How much of the effort we spend now is done to build nothing but our own moral reputations, he asks. And how much of what we admire in others is just effort porn? "I had to change my lab's culture," says Dr. David Frum. If all we ask from each other is the effort that we put in, we will create a world full of hard labor, and cobras,. But if what we ask fromeach other is to produce something meaningful, we will created a worldfull of meaning. Thank you.

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