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

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The Importance of Setting a Timer to Think About Things

When you're sitting down to plan out a high impact career for the first time it's something like thinking now about what problems in the world actually look most pressing given what you've kind of what matters in the abstract. So maybe a question is where can you begin to to look to start thinking about that question and what kinds of considerations are important to bear in mind here as well. You might think that you want to be looking for like global problems rather than like local ones because those are going to be bigger in scale. And so that might be something that differentiates problems quite significantly from other ones.

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