---client: 80000_hoursproject_id: articlesnarrator: pwqa: mdsnarrator_time: 3h00mqa_time: 0h45m---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.By clarifying your definition, you can better target your efforts, and make a difference more effectively.But how should you define social impact?Thousands of years of philosophy have gone into that question. We’re going to try to sum up that thinking; introduce a practical, rough-and-ready definition of social impact; and explain why we think it’s a good definition to focus on.This is a bit ambitious for one article, so to the philosophers in the audience, please forgive the enormous simplifications. We hope the usefulness of the definition will make up for it.Original article:https://80000hours.org/articles/what-is-social-impact-definition/Narrated for 80,000 Hours by TYPE III AUDIO.Share feedback on this narration.

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