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The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

Moment 140: The 2 Minute Trick That Beats Procrastinating For Good: Ali Abdaal

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.613.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

In this moment, YouTube and productivity expert, Ali Abdaal discusses the power of consistency and how to overcome procrastination. Ali discusses the power of compounding interest, and how small actions over time can snowball into trigger larger rapid changes such as viral success from making a YouTube video every week for 2 years. However, to get to this position, Ali says you have to first learn to love the process, moving away from an outcome based mindset that means success is out of your control, and instead to a view of success that comes from within. To get there first means overcoming hurdles such as procrastination. In order to do this, Ali says you should move away from focusing on a large end goal and instead focus on a series of smaller goals along the was. So rather than worrying about moving a whole mountain, people should focus on moving one pebble at a time. Listen to the full episode here - https://g2ul0.app.link/kHoT6TnDwFb Watch the Episodes On Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/c/%20TheDiaryOfACEO/videos Ali: https://aliabdaal.com/ https://www.youtube.com/@aliabdaal Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:27.0

What have you learned from your experience on YouTube about the importance of consistency and also from what you kind of what typically happens with for our videos is just there's it's so impossibly hard to predict the outcome, right?

0:46.0

So a lot of people like a lot of people on YouTube will make videos called how to make a viral video and in marketing it's all like here are the secret source here are the secret principles but in

0:54.4

reality you can only you can you can guess a couple of principles but the

1:00.6

outcome is hard to predict so what have you learned about consistency but then also being able to predict the outcome is hard to predict. So what have you learned about consistency but then also being able to predict the outcome?

1:05.0

Yeah, when I was listening to your compounding chapter I just found myself like nodding along like an absolute maniac to everything you were saying. I think it applies so much to YouTube.

1:15.2

These days I teach people how to be part-time

1:17.5

youubers.

1:18.1

And the thing I say is that if you make one video every week

1:22.4

for two years, then I 100% guarantee it will change your life.

1:25.6

I can't put any numbers on it. I can't tell you you'll have 100,000 subscribers or how much money you'll be making,

1:30.0

but I can 100% guarantee it will change your life. At the very least in terms of the skills and the experience and the contact and the friends you're going to make through that process

1:37.7

But you have to put out one video week and you have to do it for at least two years

1:42.1

I just ask on that then on that point there. What is it that would make

1:46.3

someone do that? Because I mean that's like fucking clean the floor every day for two years and I promise you

1:55.9

at work out for you. It like people don't seem to be able to do those kinds of

2:00.6

things without some kind of intrinsic driver.

2:03.3

So I'm curious, because you could say that to a million people.

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