Spencer Greenberg

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80,000 Hours Podcast · #249 – Spencer Greenberg on staying sane while trying to save the world · 28 Jul 2026 podcast

I can live with this feeling of stress all the time.

I can live with this lower motivation.

Okay.

Maybe, but, but is it going to get worse?

And how long can you actually live with it?

And also it's just, you don't necessarily have to live with it.

You can have a more pleasant lifestyle.

You don't have to necessarily suffer so much and you still might be able to be equally or more effective.

So throughout my life, I've found a lot of value in specific self-improvement methods that have really been transformative for me.

At the same time, I've read so much self-improvement where I felt like, oh man, I just didn't really get much out of that.

And that could be like, it didn't really have any useful techniques, or it could be that it sort of repeats other things.

And so the space felt like a bit of a mess.

I know there's really valuable stuff there, but it's hard to find it.

And my co-author, Jeremy Stevenson, who's a clinical psychologist, he treats patients, he also has a PhD in psychology, he had had really similar experiences where he'd found some stuff transformative, but it's hard to find the good stuff.

And so we both had this desire of, well, what is all the good stuff?

And so we decided to join forces on this quest of find all the good stuff that we can.

package it, try to understand what's there, try to synthesize it, try to get the meta patterns out of it, and also look at the evidence.

So we actually reviewed the evidence on each lever, and we have a sort of appendix at the back of the book that talks about the evidence for each lever.

And what I think I like best about the book is that I think every one of the 12 levers can be really useful.

And so it's kind of a toolkit that you can come back to in different life situations and say, ah, right now in life, I think I really need lever five.

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