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    Part 4: Want to do good? Here’s how to choose an area to focus on.

    Part 4: Want to do good? Here’s how to choose an area to focus on.

    FromThe 80000 Hours Career Guide — Find a fulfilling career that does good

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    Part 4: Want to do good? Here’s how to choose an area to focus on.

    FromThe 80000 Hours Career Guide — Find a fulfilling career that does good

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    Length:
    13 minutes
    Released:
    Sep 3, 2023
    Format:
    Podcast episode

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    Answer: To maximise your impact, work on areas (1) that are large in scale, (2) that others neglect, and (3) where it’s possible to make progress. Many people fail to compare the scale of different problems, work on the same problems as everyone else, and support programmes with no evidence of impact.In this article we explain how to compare global problems.
    Released:
    Sep 3, 2023
    Format:
    Podcast episode

    Titles in the series (22)

    Coming September 4: an audio version of the 2023 80,000 Hours Career Guide also available on Amazon, Audible, and free on our website (https://80000hours.org/career-guide/). It contains 11 chapters, from 'What makes for a dream job?' to 'Which jobs help people the most?' to 'What’s the best way to gain connections?' It also has 9 appendices on a range of topics like 'All the evidence-based advice we found on how to be more successful in any job' and 'is it ever OK to take a harmful job in order to do more good?'