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Other people got a slip of paper that said, "By 5pm today, spend this money on somebody else."
We found out they did spend it in the way we asked them to.
We called them up and asked them, "What did you spend it on?
What did they spend it on?
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.
We see this again and again when we give people money to spend on others instead of on themselves.
Human universal: you spend money on others, you're being nice.
What we see again, though, is that the specific way you spend on other people isn't nearly as important as the fact that you spend on other people in order to make yourself happy, which is really quite important.
What about work, which is where we spend the rest of our time, when we're not with the people we know.
We give people on some teams some money "Spend it however you want on yourself," just like we did with the undergrads in Canada.
Spend it on one of your teammates.
Then we can see, we've got teams that spend on themselves and these pro-social teams who we give money to make the team better.
But when you give them 15 euro to spend on their teammates, they do so much better on their teams that you actually get a huge win on investing this kind of money.
Other teams, we give them money to spend on their dodgeball teammates.
The teams that spend money on themselves have the same winning percentages as before.
The teams we give the money to spend on each other become different teams; they dominate the league by the time they're done.
Go to the website and start yourself on the process of thinking less about "How can I spend money on myself?" and more about "If I've got five dollars or 15 dollars, what can I do to benefit other people?"
We've been working on democratizing Lincoln Center for a public that doesn't usually have $300 to spend on an opera ticket.
You have no idea how much time I spend.
And the reason, I only worked out just the other day, which is: when you go to a drinks party and you stand up and hold a glass of red wine and you talk endlessly to people, you don't actually want to spend all the time talking.
One of my great friends, a professor called Nick Chater, who's the Professor of Decision Sciences in London, believes we should spend far less time looking into humanity's hidden depths, and spend much more time exploring the hidden shallows.
And so I started trying to spend 15 or 20 minutes every morning, before I sat down with my New York Times, just trying to remember something.
Now, as the past few slides about coral reefs may have suggested, I do indeed spend much of my time as a researcher thinking about human-microbe interactions, specifically on coral reefs.
From the bigger perspective, I spend my time thinking about these relationships, because too many reefs are going from looking like the picture on your left to the picture on your right.
The good life is a life where design is important because somebody obviously took the time and spent the money for that kind of well-designed chair; where tradition is important, because this is a traditional classic and someone cared about this; and where there is something as conspicuous consumption, where it is OK and normal to spend a humongous amount of money on such a chair, to signal to other people what your social status is.
Today, you've got to spend years in grad school and post-doc positions just to figure out what the important questions are.
Ask the next 10 people you see on the streets, "Hey, do you think it's worthwhile to spend billions of Swiss francs looking for the Higgs boson?"
And he says, "I want to spend the rest of my life with you."
Before I do that, though, I want to spend a couple of minutes telling you how a death penalty case unfolds, and then I want to tell you two lessons that I have learned over the last 20 years as a death penalty lawyer from watching well more than a hundred cases unfold in this way.
But the thing is that for every 15,000 dollars that we spend intervening in the lives of economically and otherwise disadvantaged kids in those earlier chapters, we save 80,000 dollars in crime-related costs down the road.
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