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Mini Blog Post 2: Be Deliberate — Neel Nanda

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On ensuring that your actions are purposeful, and truly bringing you closer to your goals

One of the most important ideas I’ve ever internalised is to be deliberate about how I act in the world. Everything I ever do is an action, and my actions bring me further from or closer to my goals. Being deliberate is realising that this link is not automatic, and requires active attention and effort. I need to be aware of why I’m acting the way that I am, how this could be helpful to me, and to develop the skill of noticing when this stops being true. This idea sounds completely trivial when phrased like that. “There are things that I want in the world, and I should take actions that get…

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