I recently read Can’t Hurt Me by David Goggins, as well as Living with a SEAL about him, and found both pretty appealing. Also wondered whether EA could learn anything from this approach, and am pretty sure that this is indeed the case, at least for a subset of people. There is surely also some risk of his “no bullshit / total honesty / never quit” attitude to be very detrimental to some, but I assume it can be quite helpful for others.
In a way, CFAR workshops seem to go in a similar-ish direction, don’t they? Just much more compressed. So one hypothetical option to think about would be to consider scaling it up to a multi-month program, for highly ambitious & driven people who prioritize maximizing their impact to an unusually high degree. Thinking about it, this does indeed sound at least somewhat like what Charity Entrepeneurship is doing. Although it’s a pretty particular and rather “object-level” approach, so I can imagine having some alternatives that require similarly high levels of commitment but have a different focus could indeed be very valuable.
I recently read Can’t Hurt Me by David Goggins, as well as Living with a SEAL about him, and found both pretty appealing. Also wondered whether EA could learn anything from this approach, and am pretty sure that this is indeed the case, at least for a subset of people. There is surely also some risk of his “no bullshit / total honesty / never quit” attitude to be very detrimental to some, but I assume it can be quite helpful for others.
In a way, CFAR workshops seem to go in a similar-ish direction, don’t they? Just much more compressed. So one hypothetical option to think about would be to consider scaling it up to a multi-month program, for highly ambitious & driven people who prioritize maximizing their impact to an unusually high degree. Thinking about it, this does indeed sound at least somewhat like what Charity Entrepeneurship is doing. Although it’s a pretty particular and rather “object-level” approach, so I can imagine having some alternatives that require similarly high levels of commitment but have a different focus could indeed be very valuable.