Transformative speaker Dr Stephen Post believes that ‘giving is the most potent force on the planet’. In his book, Why Good Things Happen to Good People, Post, a professor of preventive medicine and bioethics at Stony Brook University in New York, and co-writer Jill Neimark, demonstrate the connection between generosity and health and happiness.
Transformative speaker Dr Stephen Post believes that ‘giving is the most potent force on the planet’. In his book, Why Good Things Happen to Good People, Post, a professor of preventive medicine and bioethics at Stony Brook University in New York, and co-writer Jill Neimark, demonstrate the connection between generosity and health and happiness.
His philosophy is aligned with a 2017 study by researchers from Swiss, German and American universities that used functional magnetic resonance imaging and a public pledge for future generosity to investigate the brain mechanisms that link generous behaviour with increases in happiness. Participants promised to spend money over the next four weeks either on others (experimental group) or on themselves (control group). “Participants in the experimental group made more generous choices in an independent decision-making task and showed stronger increases in self-reported happiness,” the study found. The conclusion: Generous behaviour increases happiness, which in turn motivates generosit
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