YouTube Superstar Ali Abdaal on Productivity and Essentialism
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🗓️ 20 December 2023
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of the Daily Stoic Podcast, Ryan talks with YouTube Superstar Ali Abdaal 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.
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| 0:00.0 | Our emotions play a powerful role in everything we think and say and do and in this series of Darren Brown's boot camp for emotion |
| 0:07.5 | Darren is joined by top behavioral scientists and experts to reveal how we can control these powerful and mysterious forces |
| 0:14.6 | which often hijack our rational thinking and lead us astray. By increasing our |
| 0:18.8 | emotional intelligence we can improve our lives in every conceivable way. This is the latest release in the Darren Brown |
| 0:24.7 | boot camp series. Previous series include Darren Brown's boot camp for the brand and Darren Brown's |
| 0:29.3 | boot camp for life. All three series are available to listen to on audible, subscription required, see |
| 0:34.9 | audible.co. UK for terms. |
| 0:39.6 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic podcast where each weekday we bring you a meditation inspired by the |
| 0:46.2 | ancient stelics a short passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you find strength and |
| 0:52.0 | insight here in everyday life. |
| 0:55.0 | And on Wednesdays, we talk to some of our fellow students of ancient philosophy, |
| 1:00.4 | well-known and obscure, fascinating, and powerful. With them we discuss the |
| 1:05.2 | strategies and habits that have helped them become who they are and also to |
| 1:10.1 | find peace and wisdom in their actual lives. |
| 1:13.6 | For more, you can visit us the Daily Stoad Podcast. |
| 1:33.8 | We got a two-parter for you that I'm excited about. |
| 1:37.4 | I first met today's guest, Ali Abdul, I guess in 2021, he interviewed me for a video he was doing or something like that. |
| 1:47.3 | I know he was asking some advice about a book he was doing, and it's been really interesting to watch him on this journey. |
| 1:55.0 | Ali is a doctor. |
| 1:56.6 | There's not a lot of productivity gurus who are also trained medical doctors, |
| 2:02.4 | but he learned where I think you got to learn on the job |
| 2:06.2 | juggling the demands of medical school which he did at Cambridge and then building this |
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