You probably won’t be ready to make a major change just yet - you might want to read and reflect more before you do that. So instead we’ll help you to think through some of your key uncertainties, generate tests for those uncertainties, and plan out how you can make sure you follow through on your intentions.
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Introduction to Putting it into practice
Effective altruism as the most exciting cause in the world
Summary of 80,000 Hours’ key ideas
My current impressions on career choice for longtermists
GiveWell (Explore site for 5 mins.)
Giving What We Can (Explore site for 5 mins.)
You have more than one goal, and that's fine
(1.5h, please complete this before your session)
For this exercise, you’ll begin to think about what these ideas might mean for your life. We don’t expect you to come up with a full plan now: you should probably continue to explore the ideas and think through various options. But we think that it can be useful to come up with some initial guesses at this stage, to structure your thinking.
Based on the readings in previous sessions, which global problems do you think are most pressing and why? (Remember, experts are quite uncertain about this question!)