8. Putting it into practice

In this final section, we hope to help you apply the principles of effective altruism to your own life and career.

You probably won’t be ready to make a major change just yet—you might want to read and reflect more before you do that. So instead we’ll help you to think through some of your key uncertainties, generate tests for those uncertainties, and plan out how you can make sure you follow through on your intentions.

1. Introduction

Put­ting it into practice

2. Attitudes to doing good

Two different attitudes that you can try on this week.

Call to Vigilance

Effec­tive al­tru­ism as the most ex­cit­ing cause in the world

3. Career choice

Sum­mary of 80,000 Hours’ key ideas

My cur­rent im­pres­sions on ca­reer choice for longtermists

4. Donations

GiveWell (Ex­plore site for 5 mins.)

Giv­ing What We Can (Ex­plore site for 5 mins.)

5. Dealing with demandingness

You have more than one goal, and that’s fine

6. Exercise (1.5 hrs.)

[Question] Ex­er­cise for ‘Put­ting it into Prac­tice’

7. More to explore

More to ex­plore on ‘Put­ting it into Prac­tice’