Regarding: "What’s blocking you from working on an altruistic project?"
Recently I took an online course about managing time and projects, including motivation and follow-through, and one of the most valuable take-aways I got out of it was this:
There are three basic reasons people procrastinate:
Not knowing what to do.
That is, which of the many available things to start doing. Analysis paralysis is a huge threat to getting things done. I think the kinds of people who feel drawn to EA may also tend to have a particularly high rate of worrying about
Regarding: "What’s blocking you from working on an altruistic project?"
Recently I took an online course about managing time and projects, including motivation and follow-through, and one of the most valuable take-aways I got out of it was this:
There are three basic reasons people procrastinate:
- Not knowing what to do.
- That is, which of the many available things to start doing. Analysis paralysis is a huge threat to getting things done. I think the kinds of people who feel drawn to EA may also tend to have a particularly high rate of worrying about
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