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Nine: Benjamin Todd on the key ideas of 80,000 Hours

Effective Altruism: An Introduction – 80,000 Hours

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The Trade-Off Between Cre Capital and Specialization

People often face a high level trade off between gettingd of very specialized correar capital that really advances them in this one track that they're probably already on, versus in very generic schools. And so that's kind of going back to the point i made earlier, the sometimes you don't need to kind of directly optimize for cre capital as much. Cause if you just optimize for like, having im a big impact over five or ten years and doing something with good personal fit, then you're already going to be getting good cre capital as a side effect.

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