Rob and Keiran on the philosophy of The 80,000 Hours Podcast
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Is There a Unifying Strand in Your Career?
Iowra sod started out as a professional poker player, and then studied psychology at the graduate level. Do you think there's any sort of unifying strand behind behind those experiences? Yes. But my made up answer is inspired by my friend, a j jacobs, who is writing a new book all about puzzles. And i think the common strand in my career is that i've always been solving puzzles. With 80 thousand hours, generally, i think it's very helpful to think about solving global problems as puzzles. If you can get people to channel that energy into these puzzles, ithink it's a enormously valuable.
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