The Productivity Expert: How to Make 2024 Your Most Productive & ABUNDANT Year Yet | Ali Abdaal

The School of Greatness

Lewis Howes

Entrepreneurship, Fitness, Inspiration, Greatness, Health, Money, Celebrity Interview, Self Care, Celebrity, Success, Mental Health, Relationships, Mindset, Health & Fitness, Education, Alternative Health, Business, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 8 January 2024

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

We often equate productivity with grueling hard work and relentless effort, but Ali Abdaal is about to flip that script. In Feel-Good Productivity, he reveals a refreshing and uplifting approach to success, one that's rooted in joy and well-being rather than stress and grind. Ali Abdaal is a former doctor turned YouTuber, podcaster, entrepreneur and author. He's been creating YouTube videos for over 7 years and has a following of almost 5 million. Ali became intrigued by the science of productivity while juggling the demands of medical training at Cambridge University with building his business. While working as a doctor in the UK's National Health Service, Ali started to document his journey towards living a healthier, happier, more productive life online. In the years since, Ali's evidence-based videos, podcasts and articles about the human mind have reached hundreds of millions of people all around the world.

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0:00.0	people feel that the more energy you give, the more drained you become.
0:04.0	But it's actually not true.
0:05.6	Similarly with work, it's like the more effort and engagement you give to your work,
0:09.7	that doesn't deplete your energy.
0:11.2	That actually renews your energy. The most draining thing in the world is
0:15.2	coasting, looking at your clock being like, oh God, when is this going to end?
0:17.7	Yeah. No one is energized by that. No one sucks a life out of you.
0:20.8	Sucks a life out of you. But if you're fully engaged, if you're like giving it your
0:24.0	role, if you're showing up sincerely rather than seriously, if you're doing all things, treating
0:27.2	it like play, lightness at knees, having fun along the way, trying to help people out,
0:30.6	you get home from the end of the day of work feeling more energized than when you
0:33.4	started even though contraintatively you've been putting a lot of energy into it.
0:37.0	Welcome to the School of Greatness. My name is Lewis Howe's former pro-athlete turned lifestyle entrepreneur and each week we bring you an inspiring person or message to help you discover how to unlock your inner greatness.
0:52.0	Thanks for spending some time with me today.
0:54.0	Now let the class begin.
0:59.0	Welcome back everyone in the School of Greatness, very excited about a guest. We have the inspiring Ali Abdul in the house. My man, good to see you,
1:07.0	great to see you. It's good to see you again. Very excited about this because two and a half years ago we had a conversation on the internet
1:14.0	that changed the course of your life.
1:17.0	Genuinely, that one, that like half an hour segment
1:20.0	of me being interviewed on your podcast
1:22.0	two and a half years ago has literally
1:23.4	single-handedly changed my entire life.
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