Required Materials

Two different attitudes that you can try on this session:

• Call to vigilance (5 mins.)
• Effective altruism as one of the most exciting causes in the world (3 mins.)

Career choice:

• Summary of 80,000 Hours’ key ideas (5 mins., but we encourage you to explore the rest of the site too)
• My current impressions on career choice for longtermists (40 mins., but we encourage you to skim and focus on the sections you’re most interested in)

Donations:

• Givewell (5 mins. exploring the site)
• Giving What We Can (5. mins exploring the site)

Dealing with demandingness:

• You have more than one goal, and that's fine (5 mins.)

Exercise (see below)

Exercise (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!)

Write your answer here (In your own copy of the document)

What are your 3-5 biggest uncertainties about the above?

Write your answer here (In your own copy of the document)