Helping Others Makes Us Happier

This is so true, when we help others it makes us feel valued.  Charity work is recommended for anyone who has experienced depression.   There are million ways in which we can make a difference and help others.

Research shows that helping others makes us happier. But in her groundbreaking work on generosity and joy, social psychologist Elizabeth Dunn found that there's a catch: it matters how we help. Learn how we can make a greater impact -- and boost our own happiness along the way -- if we make one key shift in how we help others. "Let's stop thinking about giving as just this moral obligation and start thinking of it as a source of pleasure," Dunn says. This talk was presented at an official TED conference, and was featured by our editors on the home page.


 About the speaker Elizabeth Dunn · Happiness researcher Elizabeth Dunn discovers ways that people can optimize their use of time, money and technology in order to maximize their own happiness.