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Many people think of Superman as a hero. But he may be the greatest example of underutilised talent in all of fiction. It was a blunder to spend his life fighting crime one case at a time; if he’d thought a little more creatively, he could have done far more good. How about delivering vaccines to everyone in the world at superspeed? That would have eradicated most infectious disease, saving hundreds of millions of lives.
Here we’ll argue that a lot of people who want to “make a difference” with their career fall into the same trap as Superman. College graduates imagine becoming doctors or teachers, but these may not be the best fit for their particular skills. And like Superman fighting crime, these paths are often limited in the amount they could potentially contribute to solving a problem.
In contrast, Nobel Prize winner Karl Landsteiner discovered blood groups, enabling hundreds of millions of lifesaving operations. He would have never been able to carry out that many surgeries himself.
Below we’ll introduce five ways you could use your career to help tackle the social problems you want to help work on (which we identified in the previous article). The five ways are: earning to give, communication, research, government and policy, and organisation-building. We’ll make concrete recommendations on how to pursue each approach.
Source:
https://80000hours.org/career-guide/high-impact-jobs/
Narrated for 80,000 Hours by Perrin Walker of TYPE III AUDIO.
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client: 80000_hours
project_id: articles
narrator: pw
qa: km
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Many people think of Superman as a hero. But he may be the greatest example of underutilised talent in all of fiction. It was a blunder to spend his life fighting crime one case at a time; if he’d thought a little more creatively, he could have done far more good. How about delivering vaccines to everyone in the world at superspeed? That would have eradicated most infectious disease, saving hundreds of millions of lives.
Here we’ll argue that a lot of people who want to “make a difference” with their career fall into the same trap as Superman. College graduates imagine becoming doctors or teachers, but these may not be the best fit for their particular skills. And like Superman fighting crime, these paths are often limited in the amount they could potentially contribute to solving a problem.
In contrast, Nobel Prize winner Karl Landsteiner discovered blood groups, enabling hundreds of millions of lifesaving operations. He would have never been able to carry out that many surgeries himself.
Below we’ll introduce five ways you could use your career to help tackle the social problems you want to help work on (which we identified in the previous article). The five ways are: earning to give, communication, research, government and policy, and organisation-building. We’ll make concrete recommendations on how to pursue each approach.
Source:
https://80000hours.org/career-guide/high-impact-jobs/
Narrated for 80,000 Hours by Perrin Walker of TYPE III AUDIO.
Share feedback on this narration.