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Consider working more hours and taking more stimulants — EA Forum

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Sooner or later, the great men turn out to be all alike. They never stop working. They never lose a minute. It is very depressing. — V.S. Pritchett EA produces much talk about an obligation to donate some or even most of your wealth. In both direct work and earning to give, there's a connection between your work productivity and your (direct or indirect) impact. Hard work is also a costly signal of commitment that could substitute for frugality in our less funding-constrained phase of the movement. And working incredibly hard increases the chance of tail successes that might generate very high impact. In the same way that you might want to attract converts by advancing a softer norm of donating only 10% of your income rather than everything above $40k, you might want to create a softer norm about productivity, and not feel bad about only following this norm. This post is addressed instead to those who haven't considered much at all the prospect of experimenting with working 60 hours a

Xavier_ORourke 3y 93 55 5 I encourage readers to consider whether they are the correct audience for this advice. As I understand it, this advice is directed at those for whom all of the following apply: - Making a large impact on the world is overwhelmingly more important to you than other things people often want in their lives (such as spending lot of time with friends/family, raising children, etc.) - You have already experienced a normal workload of ~38h per week for at least a couple of years, and found this pretty easy/comfortable to maintain - You generally consider yourself to be happy

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