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Rob Wiblin on human nature, new technology, and living a happy, healthy & ethical life

80,000 Hours Podcast

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The Biggest Mistake People Make When Starting Out

80,000 hours is roughly the number of hours that you'd work in a full-time career I think it's 40 hours times by 50 weeks times by 40 years so it gets you to 80,000 hours. You're going to have to prioritize a lot and figure out what little chunk of the what's problems are you going to bite off or you think you personally can get the most traction and have the biggest impact hmm. Where do people make the biggest mistakes oh interesting? People just end up working on a problem in the world that's somewhat chosen at random It's just something that they learned about early on that they heard about from other people that kind of grabbed grab their interest

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