Dr. Michael Greger

Look, there's so many people struggling with basic, you know, I had this privileged ability to be able to look outside because I had my basic needs met.

So that would definitely be one of the truths is to incorporate some kind of selfless action.

Look, and that could be philanthropy, right?

I mean, it doesn't have to mean devoting your career to that.

Sure, sure.

But like tithing, even 10% to- Yes.

You know, there's so much we could do with, you know, like bed nets for malaria and stuff.

You can literally save people's lives for, you know, small amounts of money, right?

If you actually save someone's life, if you went into a burning building and you pulled out some kid, that would be the biggest day of your life.

Like that, you would remember that.

That would be like your crowning achievement.

You would never forget that.

Your life would have been worth it.

You can do that with a check these days because now we have a system where we can get money anywhere in the world to places that really need it.

We have preventable diseases and we have tremendous poverty that can be alleviated.

And it's like, that's this amazing, we have this amazing power that we never really had in our species before to help.

You know, we have this tendency, obviously, to help people around us, people who are close to us.

We see something and we want to reach out to something local.

I totally understand that.

But, I mean, you know, poverty here is nothing like poverty some places in the world.