Coaching practices for Effective Altruism Scope

Describe almost anything you are working through and IX Coach finds the practices whose real-world fit is closest. For Effective Altruism Scope, these are the strongest matches in the current practice library.

Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• I’m about to give to the cause whose story moved me most, but I have a nagging feeling the same money somewhere less photogenic might do ten times the actual good
• I set up an automatic donation to a big cause and felt almost nothing
• I give until there’s nothing left of me and call it being a good person, and lately I just feel resentful and empty
• The small good things I do feel so tiny against everything that’s wrong that I wonder why I bother
• I help people constantly but lately it’s coming from a place of "I should" or not wanting to look bad, and instead of feeling good it just leaves me drained and a little resentful

Practices that may help

1. Calculate cost per unit of outcome for giving and resource allocation
   Divide total cost by the expected outcome units to compare the real efficiency of different options.
   Scope Insensitivity: Why Scale Doesn’t Change Your Feelings
2. Give to a named, visible person
   Spend on someone specific enough that you can see or imagine their response.
   Prosocial Spending: Why Giving Boosts Happiness
3. Be otherish, not selfless
   Help others in ways that also serve your own goals and interests.
   Give and Take: The Giver Advantage
4. Scope Insensitivity: Why Scale Doesn’t Change Your Feelings
   Scope insensitivity is the tendency to react with nearly the same emotional intensity to problems of vastly different scale — to care about 2,000 birds in danger nearly as much as 200,000 birds. Identified by Kahneman and colleagues, it is one of the clearest demonstrations that moral and decision-relevant emotions respond to the image of a problem, not its magnitude. The bias has strong empirical support and has important implications for charitable giving, risk assessment, and resource allocation.
5. Notice the ripple — secondary effects beyond the immediate act
   Watch for how a single act of kindness can propagate through a social network, which amplifies the meaning of the original act.
   Acts of Kindness, Made Practical
6. Check your motivation before the act
   Notice whether you’re acting from genuine care or from obligation — the emotion behind the act shapes the benefit you receive.
   Acts of Kindness, Made Practical
7. Allocate part of your values budget to others
   Prosocial spending — money spent on others — generates more lasting satisfaction per dollar than equivalent self-spending.
   Values-Based Spending, Made Practical
8. Acts of kindness
   Do one deliberate kind thing for another person — the giver benefits as much as or more than the receiver.
   Building Positive Emotions, Made Practical
9. Apply door-in-the-face for prosocial or charitable asks
   The technique was originally tested in a prosocial context and works especially well when both parties share values.
   The Door-in-the-Face Technique, Made Practical
10. Extend kindness toward strangers, not just your inner circle
    Acts of kindness toward strangers often produce stronger well-being benefits than acts toward people you already help routinely.
    Acts of Kindness, Made Practical

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