The more neglected and solvable, the further extra effort will go. As we explained in the previous article, this means problems that are not only big, but also neglected and solvable. In short, the most pressing problems are those where people can have the greatest impact by working on them. 1 Read on to hear why ending diarrhoea might save as many lives as world peace, why artificial intelligence might be an even more important problem, and what to do in your own career to make the most urgent changes happen.
Here, we give a summary of what we’ve learned. Our analysis suggests that choosing the right problem could increase your impact over 100 times, which would make it the most important decision you ever make. We wanted to have a positive impact with our careers, and so we set out to discover where our efforts would be most effective. We’ve spent much of the last eight years trying to answer a simple question: what are the world’s biggest, and most neglected problems?
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