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Hannah Boettcher on the mental health challenges that come with trying to have a big impact

80k After Hours

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How to Relate to Existential Risk in Worry Time

In worry time, the mind is worried about a risk and there's something you can do to help. Or maybe it's applying for jobs to try to work on that problem. Maybe there's not anything you can do about it. And then it's, I guess, time boxing, the amount of time that you spend really feeling grief or whatever it is. So we can use diffusion and some redirecting to the present in these cases.

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