How One Career Can Save a Million Lives

We strongly recommend it for delving deeper into how you could have a tremendously impactful, while fulfilling, career.

The guide is full of interesting and actionable information, from why you shouldn’t just “follow your passion” to why medicine and charity work aren’t always the best ways to help others. It’s full of practical tips and exercises, and at the end, you’ll have a draft of a new career plan.

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MonoGA
Nathan Young
BlueNotesBlues
Michael Andregg
Riley Matthews
Vladimir Silyaev
Nathanael Moody
Alcher Black
RMR
Nathan Metzger
Monadologist
Glenn Tarigan
NMS
James Babcock
Colin Ricardo
Long Hoang
Tor Barstad
Apuis Retsam
Stuart Alldritt
Chris Painter
Juan Benet
Falcon Scientist
Jeff
Christian Loomis
Tomarty
Edward Yu
Ahmed Elsayyad
Chad M Jones
Emmanuel Fredenrich
Honyopenyoko
Neal Strobl
bparro
Danealor
Craig Falls
Vincent Weisser
Alex Hall
Ivan Bachcin
joe39504589
Klemen Slavic
blasted0glass
Scott Alexander
noggieB
Dawson
John Slape
Gabriel Ledung
Jeroen De Dauw
Craig Ludington
Jacob Van Buren
Superslowmojoe
Nathan Fish
Bleys Goodson
Ducky
Bryan Egan
Matt Parlmer
Tim Duffy
rictic
marverati
Luke Freeman
Richard Stambaugh
Jonathan Plasse
Teo Val
Ken Mc
leonid andrushchenko
Alcher Black
William Clelland
ronvil
AWyattLife
codeadict
Lazy Scholar
Torstein Haldorsen
Michal‚ Zielinski

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Directed by:
Hannah Levingstone | @hannah_luloo

Written By:
Benjamin Todd
Benjamin Hilton

Line Production & Production Manager:

Quality Assurance Lead:
Lara Robinowitz | @CelestialShibe

Storyboard Artists:
Ira Klages | @dux
Keith Kavanagh | @johnnycigarettex

Animation:
Damon Edgson
Ira Klages | @dux
Keith Kavanagh | @johnnycigarettex
Michela Biancini
Owen Peurois | @owenpeurois
Colors Giraldo | @colorsofdoom
Jordan Gilbert | @Twin_Knight (twitter)
Twin Knight Studios (YT)
Zack Gilbert | @Twin_Knight (twitter)
Twin Knight Studios (YT)
Neda Lay | @Nezhahah
Patrick Sholar | @sholarscribbles

Visual Development
Hané Harnett
Zoe Martin-Parkinson | @zoemar_son

Compositing:
Renan Kogut | @kogut_r (twitter)
Patrick C | @patrick.h264 (insta)
Ira Klages: @dux

Narration:

Sound Editing:
Tony Dipiazza

Sound Design:

[RationalAnimations]

We strongly recommend it for delving deeper into how you could have a tremendously impactful, while fulfilling, career.

The guide is full of interesting and actionable information, from why you shouldn’t just “follow your passion” to why medicine and charity work aren’t always the best ways to help others. It’s full of practical tips and exercises, and at the end, you’ll have a draft of a new career plan.

[Puppeteer_in_the_Void]

The young boy paused, looked up, and replied “Throwing starfish into the ocean. The tide has washed them up onto the beach and they can’t return to the sea by themselves, ” the youth replied. “When the sun gets high, they will die, unless I throw them back into the water.”
The old man replied, “But there must be tens of thousands of starfish on this beach. I’m afraid you won’t really be able to make much of a difference.”
The boy bent down, picked up yet another starfish and threw it as far as he could into the ocean. Then he turned, smiled and said, “It made a difference to that one!” -Loren Eiseley, The Star Thrower

[julonkrutor]

Garbage collectors save lives.

Always understaffed, always overworked they clean up the mess of others.

Same goes for bricklayers, roofers ect. Without any of those and a thousand other jobs none of us would enjoy the life we are living. Its a great concert and if just one part stops playing, we have a problem. So treat each other with care and respect.

[shellybrulez]

I'll never forget the woman who did my father's liver transplant. She had worked alongside us for years prior to it. The best outcome was that my father would live 5 years more-- he lived 10. To my family, we had 10 more years with him, and it was not only his life saved, but my family's lives bettered just by her one action. It doesn't always seem like one person can do a lot, but truly you can never know how much you'll affect another person by your actions, so I think the best thing to do is always try to impact others positively-- you don't know who it will affect and what difference it will make.

[KeyTryer]

The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world...

[Skivv]

Imagine spending years of your life hard at work to create a simple easy and cheap solution to some horrible disease or condition, for the american health system to make it so expensive that noone gets it.

[cosmologicalturtle]

AFIK, there is one man known to have single handedly saved the world from imminent nuclear war: Vasili Arkhipov. He was a Soviet senior officer, who was at a nuclear submarine in the pacific when they were put on the receiving end of depth charges released by the US navy. The charges were only intended to make them surface, but the crew didn’t know this. They had permission to launch the nuclear missile on board if they were attacked, and the two other officers on the sub approved they do this, but Vasili was the sole dissenter. There was no higher chain of command which might have stopped the launch. If Vasili hadn’t dissented, or if he hadn’t been on the sub that day, the weapon would have been launched.

[draytonbeninger]

It's great to see ORS get mentioned! It's important to remember that Nalin was also able to do what he did because he was surrounded by other researchers and doctors. Another big part of why it's saved so many lives is also because of people after him pushing for it to be recognized, and from organizations like icddr, b which kept research going and are still saving people in Bangladesh today. Even if you aren't the one to invent something, you can still have a huge impact!

[portobellomushroom]

I think an even more important question than "How can I make a difference" is "Is what I'm doing making a positive difference?" Everyone should not focus on making the most impact by themselves but rather finding the thing they are best at and doing that thing in a way that enables others to do more good. If doing good were a competition, we would get in each other's way in trying to be "The one" who does the most good. In order to allow for the most good to be done in the world, both because of and in spite of your own actions, you need to relinquish the idea that one person deserves the credit when really they were just the last in a long line of people to make that change happen

[azfk]

I’m currently expelling solid waste, and it is not diarrhea

[Lordbeanflorp]

Absolutely amazed by the quality of animation in your videos, it’s so incredibly high effort.

[fiercemonkey]

Thank you to all who have saved many, or even just one. lets pay things forward so we can keep saving others from a early grave.

[SoapboxFella]

The frontier of medicine is not saving lives these days, but bringing people comfort and enabling them to recover as quickly as possible.

[zekejanczewski]

Dr Nalin was the first guy to say:" Did you try drinking it? " and saving so many lives is so funny to me.

[smitchered]

Progress studies! To remind yourself that incredible human progress has been made, and that we already possess tried and true methods of solving every problem!
This is constructive optimism, I think--that if the world is doomed, it is by coincidence and it doesn't negate the progress we've made thus far. The other lesson is that the tools you need to un-doom the world are in plain sight.

[Montgomerygolfgator]

The butterfly effect is all over the question of "what job saves the most lives", because we're all so interconnected. Nurses love Dr Pepper, it's easily available caffeine with a sugar free variety and tastes good even flat. If a nurse catches a possibility fatal error, how much of that was due to being more alert due to the caffeine in their system? Suddenly, a small bit of that life saved is attributed to the vending machine operator, the factory workers that made the soda, the people who harvested the ingredients, thousands of people! Not to mention the people who trained the nurse, of whom they wouldn't have known about an error to catch.

It's all to say, if you're doing your job... You probably had a hand in making the lives of others better. Civilization is a group effort, and you are responsible for supporting the saving of lives or the betterment of others in some way you may never be aware of. You always matter.

[Hugiisstecher]

Most underrated channel on Youtube! The animations are so beautiful and the topics are interisting and well made, how doesnt he have millions of subscribers???

[celestialowl]

I think it's also worth asking what "deaths prevented" means. Is this deaths directly prevented as a life saving action? Administering preventitive measures that avoid a far more dangerous scenario? Just being there for benign checkups that allow patients to be comfortable not pushing off health concerns until they get worse?

[kavinesh_the_legend]

Bro forgot about the guy who discovered polio vaccine.

[CookieMage]

Stanislav Petrov was TOTALLY the main character of life for at _LEAST_ a day. Bro was the goat. RIP 🪦