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#52 – Michael Aird on how to do Impact-Driven Research

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Doing a Job Heavy on Talking to People

You can easily think you'd be passionate about something because you've done some version of it but after two years you take it. Or because you've tried something like it but not quite right so one example is like talking to people and there's like a lot of EA's who think like jobs heavy on talking to people are not going to be good for them as they're introverted or something. Try to focus your choice on the variables that are pretty hard to changeNot the ones that are very flexible and knowledge is unusually flexible. And it matters a bit less your factual knowledge because basically higher as and also when you're making career choices both as a hiring manager deciding who to hire and when

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