Hannah Boettcher on the mental health challenges that come with trying to have a big impact
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The Importance of Reflecting on Beliefs
Some people are trying to do a lot of good, some people they're trying to do the most good they can. And in either case, maybe much more than is typical, we end up asking things like, is what we're doing good enough? Could we be doing more good? Do we have the right beliefs or could we have the writer beliefs? Is this project that I'm working on going fine? How can I guess all the ways it could go wrong so that it could go better? It's such a optimization framing that ending up anywhere below optimal, which we don't even know what optimal is oftentimes.
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