How Clear Thinking Can Help You Achieve Your Goals

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With clearer thinking, our goal is essentially to help people think more clearly. And then also to apply better kind of behavioral science methods to achieve their goals. So for example, we've got a tool called decision advisor that's designed to help people make big life decisions. We're trying to create completely scalable interventions to help people in these ways. It could be 10 people using it or a million people using or a billion people using it.

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How can you live your best life? What's a good definition of "wisdom"? What are some possible taxonomies of life outcomes? What are some low-hanging fruit in the realm of self-improvement? What are some useful behavior change frameworks and techniques?

All his life, James Norris has been searching for the best ways to change himself and change the world. He started as an entrepreneur at age 6 and since has co-founded or helped build 9 businesses and 16 organizations, including the premier conference for the effective altruism movement, the world's first global lifehacking event series, Southeast Asia's first social innovation hackathon series, and a university for today's Leonardo da Vincis. He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin as a triple major / quadruple minor. Find more about him at jamesnorris.org and upgradable.org.

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