The selfishness of helping | Radu Tatar | TEDxAmerican International School of Bucharest

I'd like to begin my talk not with a personal anecdote or anything that might be considered very heavy immediately, but instead I want to cover a couple of ground components. So, how many know what word altruism means? All right, I've got a few hands. I've got a few hands. Um, let's cover that and then I'll get into my talk. Right. So altruism is essentially the fancy word that behavioral scientists and psychologists like to give doing charitable acts. So that's things uh that you do without anything in exc ...