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So I want to talk today about money and happiness,

which are two things that a lot of us spend a lot of

our time thinking about, either trying to earn them or

trying to increase them. And a lot of us resonate with

this phrase. So we see it in religions and self-help

books, that money can't buy happiness.

And I want to suggest today that, in fact, that's

wrong. (Laughter) I'm at a business school, so that's

what

we

do.

So

that's

wrong,

and,

in

fact,

if

you

think

that, you're actually just not spending it right. So

that instead of spending it the way you usually spend

it, maybe if you spent it differently, that might work

a little bit better.

And before I tell you the ways that you can spend

it that will make you happier, let's think about the

ways we usually spend it that don't, in fact, make us

happier. We had a little natural experiment. So CNN,

a little while ago, wrote this interesting article on

what happens to people when they win the lottery. It

turns out people think when they win the lottery their

lives are going to be amazing.

This article's about how their lives get ruined.

So what happens when people win the lottery is, number

one, they spend all the money and go into debt, and

number two, all of their friends and everyone they've

ever met find them and bug them for money.

And it ruins their social relationships, in fact.

So they have more debt and worse friendships than they

had before they won the lottery. What was interesting

about

the

article

was

people

started

commenting

on

the

article, readers of the thing. And instead of talking

about how it had made them realize that money doesn't

lead to happiness, everyone instantly started saying,

and fantasizing about what they'd do.

And

here's

just

two

of

the

ones

we

saw

that

are

just

really

interesting

to

think

about.

One

person

wrote

in,

and

have

a

little

house

on

top.

(Laughter)

And

another

person wrote,

and get in the tub while smoking a big fat cigar and

sipping a glass of champagne.

This is even worse now:

taken and dozens of glossies made. Anyone begging for

money or trying to extort from me would receive a copy

of

the

picture

and

nothing

else.

(Laughter)

And

so

many

of

the

comments

were

exactly

of

this

type,

where

people

got money and, in fact, it made them antisocial.

So

I

told

you

that

it

ruins

people's

lives

and

that

their friends bug them. It also, money often makes us

feel very selfish and we do things only for ourselves.

Well maybe the reason that money doesn't make us happy

is that we're always spending it on the wrong things,

and in particular, that we're always spending it on

ourselves.

And we thought, I wonder what would happen if we

made people spend more of their money on other people.

So instead of being antisocial with your money, what

if you were a little more prosocial with your money?

And we thought, let's make people do it and see what

happens.

So let's have some people do what they usually do

and spend money

on

themselves,

and let's make some

people

give

money

away,

and

measure

their

happiness

and

see

if,

in

fact,

they

get

happier.

So

the

first

way

that

we did this. On one Vancouver morning, we went out on

the campus at University of British Columbia and we

approached people and said,

experiment?

They

said,

We

asked

them

how

happy

they

were,

and

then

we

gave

them

an

envelope.

And

one

of

the

envelopes

had

things

in

it

that

said,

5:00

pm

today,

spend

this

money

on

yourself.

So

we

gave

some

examples

of what you could spend it on. Other people, in the

morning,

got

a

slip

of

paper

that

said,

5:00

pm

today,

spend this money on somebody else.

envelope was money.

And we manipulated how much money we gave them. So

some people got this slip of paper and five dollars.

Some people got this slip of paper and 20 dollars. We

let them go about their day. They did whatever they

wanted to do. We found out that they did in fact spend

it in the way that we asked them to.

We called them up at night and asked them,

you spend it on, and how happy do you feel now?

did

they

spend

it

on?

Well

these

are

college

undergrads,

so a lot of what they spent it on for themselves were

things like earrings and makeup. One woman said she

bought

a

stuffed

animal

for

her

niece.

People

gave

money

to

homeless

people.

Huge

effect

here

of

Starbucks.

(Laughter)

So if you give undergraduates five dollars, it

looks

like

coffee

to

them

and

they

run

over

to

Starbucks

and

spend

it

as

fast

as

they

can.

But

some

people

bought

a coffee for themselves, the way they usually would,

but other people said that they bought a coffee for

somebody

else.

So

the

very

same

purchase,

just

targeted

toward

yourself

or

targeted

toward

somebody

else.

What

did we find when we called them back at the end of the

day?

People

who

spent

money

on

other

people

got

happier.

People

who

spent

money

on

themselves,

nothing

happened.

It didn't make them less happy, it just didn't do much

for them. And the other thing we saw is the amount of

money

doesn't

matter

that

much.

So

people

thought

that

20 dollars would be way better than five dollars.

In

fact,

it

doesn't

matter

how

much

money

you

spent.

What really matters is that you spent it on somebody

else rather than on yourself. We see this again and

again

when

we

give

people

money

to

spend

on

other

people

instead

of

on

themselves.

Of

course,

these

are

undergraduates

in

Canada

--

not

the

world's

most

representative population.

They're also fairly wealthy and affluent and all

these other sorts of things. We wanted to see if this

holds

true

everywhere

in

the

world

or

just

among

wealthy

countries.

So

we

went,

in

fact,

to

Uganda

and

ran

a

very

similar

experiment.

So

imagine,

instead

of

just

people

in

Canada,

we

said,

the

last

time

you

spent

money

on yourself or other people.

Describe it. How happy did it make you?

Uganda,

the

last

time

you

spent

money

on

yourself

or other people and describe that.

them how happy they are again. And what we see is sort

of

amazing

because

there's

human

universals

on

what

you

do with your money and then real cultural differences

on what you do as well.

So for example, one guy from Uganda says this. He