Productivity Expert: How To Finally Stay Productive: Ali Abdaal

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FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2021

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Ali Abdaal is a first in his class Cambridge graduate who is an expert in productivity and getting the most out of your life. He finished top of his year at Cambridge, but he wasn’t content with mastering productivity in one field. As well as being a full time student, he built a multi-million dollar business, as well as a youtube channel with over two million subscribers. Ali manages to squeeze every moment from his day. Yet when you listen to this, you’ll see that the techniques he uses to do this are really simple. He’s learnt them through hard-fought experience, and today he’s willing to share them with us. Ali has been a qualified doctor now for three years, and still practices medicine part-time. But he’s spread his wings and still runs his businesses and courses on the side. With so much he packs into his life, Ali is quite simply the best out there at helping you to maximise your productive potential. Today, he opens up like never before to reveal exactly how he does it all, and how you can too. Follow Ali: YouTube - www.youtube.com/@aliabdaal Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/aliabdaal Follow me: https://beacons.ai/diaryofaceo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Ali Adal, he is a creator, he is a entrepreneur who came first at Cambridge, and he is a productivity expert.
0:08.4	The way that I define productivity is just kind of using my time well and working on things that are meaningful to me and
0:14.0	optimizing for happiness. I feel unproductive when I know there is something I want to do
0:18.9	and I am not doing the thing because I'm scrolling Instagram.
0:25.0	Procrastination is a problem with getting started. And so the key to overcoming procrastination is that little nod at the start
0:28.0	towards actually getting started.
0:29.0	There are a few hacks.
0:31.0	The one that I use all the time is the two minute rule. Two minutes is all you need to change your life.
0:35.0	The way I try and remind myself of this point of I am enough is thinking and really trying am I enjoying
0:43.4	and the destination? We do need a destination, but really, like,
0:45.9	am I enjoying myself day-to-day,
0:47.8	and am I kind of living the dream, as it were, day-to-day, and not so much worrying about the goal at the end of it. productivity, procrastination, two things that all people aspiring to success, or really
1:09.2	aspiring to get anything done often struggle with.
1:13.2	Today we're going to try and solve that problem.
1:15.9	Today I'm joined by Ali Abdal.
1:18.5	He is a creator on YouTube.
1:20.4	He's got millions and millions of subscribers.
1:22.2	He is a entrepreneur. He's a
1:24.1	Cambridge graduate who came first at Cambridge and he is a productivity expert and
1:29.2	honestly he's read more books than anyone I think I've ever met on the subject but generally
1:35.7	about how to become the best version of yourself. This conversation isn't just
1:40.0	about productivity and procrastination it ends up twisting and
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