The Importance of Personality in Entrepreneurship

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Sally Kohn: Most people are not really suited for entrepreneurship. They would not be happy and they would not necessarily be good at it. She says her advice tends to be very customized to the person I'm trying to figure out is a sort of person that would thrive in an environment where you have to overcome a hundred difficult challenges or would that just totally crush them? Kohn: There are so many different ways to succeed. You can succeed by being an entrepreneur or you can succeed bybeing a researcher. And also like the world needs a lot of different skill sets.

What is 80,000 Hours? What sorts of people should become entrepreneurs? How can you run cheap experiments on yourself? What are some beneficial modes of philosophical thinking?

Arden Koehler is a researcher and writer at 80,000 Hours, a nonprofit whose mission is to help people use their careers to help solve the world's most pressing problems, and an active member of the effective altruism community. Arden has a PhD in philosophy from New York University, with a specialisation in ethics and attitudes toward time, and a B.A. in philosophy from University of California, Berkeley. You can check out her work at 80,000 Hours, and you can email her at arden@80000hours.org.

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