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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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Are You a Better Personal Fit for a Job?

How often do you think people should kind of take a job that seems worse in other ways, or work on a problem that maybe we don't think as high a priority because theyre a better personal fit for it? Ye. One complication with personal fit is that it seems like people are not super good at predicting what things they're going to really flourish and what things her gingto realy love. And there's all this literature about people being bad at predicting,. like, what makes them happy and satisfied in the long term. Yes.

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