April 13, 2010

Why should we care: Kristof Shouts back

by Brynne Tuggle

Kristof asks us why we should care? He says, “If you’ve actually seen a 13 year old girl with her eye gouged out by a brothel owner? You don’t ask that question. But another way to answer that question is to look at how our efforts to engage in a larger cause affects ourselves. We’re learning more from the field of social psychology about what makes us happy. I think one of those things is that humans have a level of happiness and a lot of the things that we think will reshape our happiness level won’t!”
He says “Don’t just think that you’ll make a difference when you retire,” he challenges us to go out and make a difference now.

He left us with this, "We have all won the lottery of life, the question comes about how we will charge that responsibility. Seek to connect to whatever call affects your life. Together we can work to change the world."

I'm inspired, how about you?

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