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Post 30: Helping People to Solve Their Problems — Neel Nanda

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How I approach giving advice to friends, help them work through problems in their lives, and encourage them to actually take action to fix their problems

Post 30: Helping People to Solve Their Problems Aug 31 Written By Neel Nanda Introduction Humans are not automatically strategic . Our goals are complicated, the world is complicated, and actually doing things is hard. This means that the default state of the world is that you are missing out on a lot of ways of achieving your goals, both small and large. And this is normal and to be expected! We all procrastinate, neglect opportunity costs and the value of information, are over or under-confident about our own abilities, and are generally mired in a range of biases that hold us back from bein

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