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What We Learned in 2022

Afford Anything

How to Become a Professor and CEO of a Think Tank

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Arthur Brooks used his own life as a case study, describing how he transitioned from being a professional French horn player who performed at Carnegie Hall to becoming an academic. He then transitioning again in his early 40s to become a CEO of a think tank based in DC, and then retransitioning back into academia as a Harvard professor. Now he does less original research and more metasynthesis pieces of other people's research.

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