How to Balance 80,000 Hours With Personal Happiness

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80,000 hours is about helping people do good in their career and doing as much good as they can. So how do you balance that with personal happiness? There's a couple of different ways of answering this question. If you're doing something that you love, you're just likely to excel more.

What is 80,000 Hours? What sorts of people should become entrepreneurs? How can you run cheap experiments on yourself? What are some beneficial modes of philosophical thinking?

Arden Koehler is a researcher and writer at 80,000 Hours, a nonprofit whose mission is to help people use their careers to help solve the world's most pressing problems, and an active member of the effective altruism community. Arden has a PhD in philosophy from New York University, with a specialisation in ethics and attitudes toward time, and a B.A. in philosophy from University of California, Berkeley. You can check out her work at 80,000 Hours, and you can email her at arden@80000hours.org.

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