ALI ABDAAL: HOW TO START LOVING YOUR JOB
Great Company with Jamie Laing
Jampot
4.6 • 636 Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2024
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Can being more productive lead to a more fulfilling life? World-leading expert and entrepreneur, Ali Abdaal sits down with me to talk about the pressure of finding purpose in life and the importance of finding the fun.
Ali Abdaal has garnered over 5 million subscribers with his insightful productivity tips and study hacks, amassing more than 380 million views. Before his online success, Ali was on a different path, training and working as a junior doctor. But in 2019 he came to crossroads, he had a pivotal realisation: the conventional path he was on might not be the one he truly wanted…
Questioning the very goals he had spent years working towards as a doctor, Ali shares his unique "3 P’s" technique—Play, Power, and People—for finding joy in activities, leading to better outcomes. And opens up about the impact of growing up without a father, revealing how it has left him out of touch with his emotional side.
This episode is reminder that there's much more to life than just getting things done.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone, it's me Paloma and I'm back. |
| 0:03.2 | I hope you all love the first series of my podcast, Mad, Sad and Bad. |
| 0:07.2 | I thought that I'll make another series. |
| 0:09.7 | Let me see you might come and join me. |
| 0:12.3 | Mad, sad and bad. |
| 0:13.9 | What the hell's that mean? |
| 0:15.1 | That's the name of the podcast. |
| 0:16.8 | Don't show me now. |
| 0:18.8 | Each week, I have an amazing guest to join me in my house. |
| 0:22.0 | Do I promise love the show as I hope you do too? |
| 0:25.1 | I'm not so happy you have a podcast. |
| 0:27.0 | New episode is out every Tuesday, out now. |
| 0:33.3 | Today's episode is sponsored by Guardian Jobs. |
| 0:36.4 | Now, I talk a lot about the importance of great company on this podcast. I mean, it's basically, it is the name of the podcast. And one thing I've learned in business, to build a great company, you need great people. Honestly, this is what we have at Jampot. Jampot is an incredible media company that we're growing, but it's not just the podcast that we do. |
| 0:55.0 | It's the team behind it that make everything happen. People make great businesses. |
| 0:59.1 | And that's exactly what Guardian Jobs is all about, helping you find great company. |
| 1:03.8 | Whether you're looking for your next big career move or trying to hire someone who actually |
| 1:07.4 | gets your values, this is the place to do it. They're not just another job board. |
| 1:12.4 | Guardian Jobs connects people who believe in the same things, who care about making a difference. |
| 1:16.4 | I mean, finding a job or hiring someone should be exciting, not like scrolling through endless |
| 1:20.1 | noise. So if you're hiring, you can get in front of candidates who really care. And if you're on |
| 1:25.2 | the hunt for a job, this is where you find roles with purpose. |
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