Top Highlights

• Lots of people say they want to “make a difference,” “do good,” “have a social impact,” or “make the world a better place” — but they rarely say what they mean by those terms.
• Your social impact is given by the number of people1 whose lives you improve and how much you improve them, over the long term.
• This shows that you can increase your impact in two ways: by helping more people over time, or by helping the same number of people to a greater extent
• about promoting total expected wellbeing — considered impartially, over the long term.
• we think people should aim to have a greater social impact within the constraints of not sacrificing other important values – in particular, while building good character, respecting rights and attending to other important personal values.

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