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#42 – Habiba Islam on Planning a High-Impact Career and Ambitious Altruism

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The Importance of Thinking About Yourself

I think in general, one of the things I really like about the effective altruism community specifically is that we can make progress on these kinds of questions together. And you really don't have to work out them by themselves. But then there's this whole other empirical bit as well around what positive impact in the world today might mean to you. You really do have to like look at the world around you and sort of see, do you really believe that there are actually like different interventions that some of them could be 100 times more effective than others? Does that make a difference too? Which kind of areas you think it's more valuable for people to throw their efforts behind?"

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