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Noah Kagan Presents

Finding Your North Star with Ali Abdaal

Noah Kagan Presents

Noah Kagan

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2021

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Ali Abdaal - a UK-based Youtuber who grew his channel to over 700k subscribers in 3 years WHILE being a full-time doctor.

Since June'20, his channel has almost doubled in size to 1.5M subs. If you’ve ever wanted to learn about how to identify and refocus your energy on the things that matter most, you’ll love this episode.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

I really wanted my great turn to say something like he was a good father, he was a great husband, and he was an inspirational teacher.

0:06.7

And it was that teacher thing that surprised me. It perfectly resonated with me in that like, yeah, this is what I'm about.

0:12.4

But nowhere on that list was anything like he was like a really good doctor who saved a lot of lives or he was a really good doctor who made a difference a lot of it like that just isn't one of the things that came to my mind when I was thought about, okay, what do I want people to say at my funeral?

0:25.0

It's been teaching that's given me the most sense of meaning of purpose, and partly why I love doing

0:30.9

YouTube video so much is because it's basically teaching at scale.

0:35.0

When I think about what my ideal life would look like and I feel like I'm more or less living my ideal life apart from the whole COVID thing right now,

0:42.0

it involves doing lots of teaching online and also

0:44.4

doing lots of teaching in person. If I can do that while also being a good dad and a good husband and all that

0:49.1

kind of cliche stuff, then I think that would be a pretty solid way to live.

0:54.0

What is up you beautiful bastards?

0:57.0

It is your boy pistachio, aka

0:59.0

Rabat can't lose, aka no-okay.

1:01.0

In today's episode, I talked to Ali Abdahl who is a British

1:03.5

Youtuber who grew his channel to over a million subscribers in three years

1:06.6

while also being a full-time doctor. We recorded the conversation back in June

1:10.6

where we detailed exactly how I was able to pull this off.

1:13.0

We also talked about some really fun things about him making videos, writing a book, and finding a wife using the internet.

1:18.0

If you ever want to learn about how to identify and focus your energy on things that matter most, you're going to love this episode.

1:23.0

Here's three gigantic things we go over.

1:25.0

Number one, why Ali set up an email account to find his future wife?

1:28.0

Number two, how to find purpose and meaning.

1:31.0

And number three, the difference between type one and type two fun.

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