Reading this post it dawned on me that this was exactly how my experience had transpired, albeit I was completely unaware that it was happening—I saved up and left my regular developed world existence to ride a bicycle across a fair amount of the world.
My experiences on the bike and the time available to think deeply (as you suggest) led me to learning about and becoming very aligned with EA.
While I’m still travelling, I’m now in the phase of figuring out how best to prepare myself for future work in an EA related field, and the financial and time freedom is giving me the means to do so.
All of which is to say that from personal experience this point has proved to be incredibly influential in allowing me to transform my thinking and future plans to be aligned with EA.
Reading this post it dawned on me that this was exactly how my experience had transpired, albeit I was completely unaware that it was happening—I saved up and left my regular developed world existence to ride a bicycle across a fair amount of the world. My experiences on the bike and the time available to think deeply (as you suggest) led me to learning about and becoming very aligned with EA. While I’m still travelling, I’m now in the phase of figuring out how best to prepare myself for future work in an EA related field, and the financial and time freedom is giving me the means to do so.
All of which is to say that from personal experience this point has proved to be incredibly influential in allowing me to transform my thinking and future plans to be aligned with EA.