YouTube Superstar Ali Abdaal on Productivity and Essentialism (PT 2)
The Daily Stoic
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🗓️ 23 December 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of the Daily Stoic Podcast, Ryan talks with YouTube Superstar Ali Abdaal during part 2 of 2 interview on how stoicism influences analytics, concrete vs. ineffable, the importance of sticking to the system, and his new book: Feel Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You.
Ali Abdaal is a doctor, entrepreneur, and the world’s most followed productivity expert. He became intrigued by the science of productivity while juggling the demands of medical training at Cambridge University with building his business. Ali’s evidence-based videos, podcasts, and articles about the human mind have reached hundreds of millions of people around the world.
YouTube | IG | Twitter/X: @AliAbdaal
Listen to his podcast (where this episode will also be released) Deep Dive with Ali Abdall.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic. Each weekday we bring you a |
| 0:08.0 | meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics, something to help you live up to those four stoic virtues of courage, justice, temperance, and wisdom. |
| 0:18.0 | And then here on the weekend we take a deeper dive into those same topics. We interview stoic philosophers. We explore at length how these |
| 0:28.2 | stoic ideas can be applied to our actual lives and the challenge and issues of our time. |
| 0:35.0 | Here on the weekend when you have a little bit more space when things have slowed down, |
| 0:40.0 | be sure to take some time to think, go for a walk to sit with your journal and |
| 0:45.8 | most importantly to prepare for what the week ahead may bring. Hey, it's Ryan. I'll get right into it because we're bringing you part two of my interview with the one and only Ali Abdullah. |
| 1:01.0 | Trained at Cambridge University, that's where to become a doctor, just a guy who |
| 1:06.8 | loves reading, who loves learning, who loves systems, and he started making YouTube videos |
| 1:11.5 | on the side and somehow became one of the world's most followed |
| 1:15.2 | productivity experts and he's been working on this book for a long time. I met him when he was just thinking |
| 1:21.4 | about doing it and so now to see it out in the world, that's pretty awesome. |
| 1:24.8 | You can check out feel good productivity, |
| 1:27.5 | how to do more of what matters to you. |
| 1:29.6 | He came all the way out from England |
| 1:31.4 | to do an interview at the Painted painted porch. I think it went great. I think you'll like it. You can follow him. |
| 1:36.3 | Ali Abdel everywhere on all the major platforms. Check out his YouTube channel if you're looking for a good |
| 1:41.2 | subscribe and grab, feel good productivity as well. |
| 1:47.0 | Yeah, I, I, I, you know, my YouTube channel is essentially an exploration of the stuff I'm interested in, and I've recently started to become interested in relationships in terms of reading books |
| 2:05.2 | about how to have a healthier, happier relationship and I hope that when I become a dad and continue |
| 2:11.2 | making videos, then I'll be like, yeah, reading all these parenting books |
| 2:13.8 | and like making a video every couple of months |
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