Sustainable Cheerful Giving Is the Sweet Spot

The right attitude toward giving is not grim self-denial but cheerful sustainability: as Julia Wise argues in her post 'Cheerfully,' the ideal is being a model who says their life is great because of, not despite, their giving—because an unhappy, struggling giver is an uninspiring message, and pushing one's giving rate so high that motivation burns out and one quits entirely is a bad outcome.