Buying someone a coffee or holding the door open for the person behind you are examples of one of the simplest ways to increase your happiness: generosity.
"One of the quickest and easiest ways to get happier is to be generous," Dan Harris said in a recent episode of his podcast, "Ten Percent Happier with Dan Harris."
In some ways, that's the least interesting part of it," said Chris Anderson, curator of TED who spoke with Harris for his podcast.
The scientific explanation behind that is that "we are wired to be generous," Anderson said.
It's really, really true now, more so than it has ever been," Anderson said.
Persons:
Ruth Gottesman, Gottesman, Dan Harris, Chris Anderson, Harris, Anderson, We've
Organizations:
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Research, CNBC, Harvard, Nature Communications, TED, Cleveland