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Rob Wiblin on self-improvement and research ethics

80,000 Hours Podcast

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How to Hack Your System to Make It Work for You

When I was young, I had a really major problem, which is that I would start projects and then I would never finish them. And this is probably the most life changing like one single thing I ever did to make it so I stick with things when I want to stick with them. So for example, if I'm producing content 80,000 hours of producing a podcast, if it's going to take more than 20 or 30 hours of work to complete something before I get to release it... Then it's just it's not motivating enough to start. Because of the podcast, usually you're able to like prepare for those record them and get them out in a sufficiently short timeline that it

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