How To Want Better Things

camiel schroeder
  • 5.0 (1)
  • SELF-IMPROVEMENT

A career is 80,000 hours of decisions about where your energy goes. It is not just about building a résumé, it is about determining what your one working life will add up to. Choosing whether those hours are spent maximizing comfort or contributing to problems that shape the century is not a neutral choice. It is, in practice, the most consequential ethical decision most people will ever face. How to Want Better Things is a audiobook-podcast that mixes research with dry irreverence and asks the only question that matters: what are you really going to do with your one career?

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  1. 09/26/2025

    Prologue

    Everyone loves stories of relentless ambition. Less often do we ask whether the object of that ambition was worthwhile. The prologue explores this mismatch: why humanity has been so good at chasing status and so poor at questioning it. The book begins here, with the suspicion that the first step to success is deciding what is actually worth succeeding at.

    16 min
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A career is 80,000 hours of decisions about where your energy goes. It is not just about building a résumé, it is about determining what your one working life will add up to. Choosing whether those hours are spent maximizing comfort or contributing to problems that shape the century is not a neutral choice. It is, in practice, the most consequential ethical decision most people will ever face. How to Want Better Things is a audiobook-podcast that mixes research with dry irreverence and asks the only question that matters: what are you really going to do with your one career?

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