How to Accelerate Your Impact

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There's a power law in how much impact people have on the world. If you can help really, really large numbers of people, that can also give you an outsized impact. I put $9,000 in my life into a middle-of-the-road kind of intervention before. It was a mistake,. But if I could go back and tell my younger self, hey, your theory of change might need some updating. And I might have saved my youngerself, like 9,000 hours.

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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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