"ali abdul he is a creator he is a"

"entrepreneur who came first at cambridge and he is a productivity expert the way that i define productivity is just kind of using my time well and working on things that are meaningful to me and optim..."

"optimizing for happiness i feel unproductive when i know there is something i want to do and i am not doing the thing because i'm scrolling instagram procrastination is a problem with getting started ..."

"actually getting started there are a few a few hacks the one that i use all the time is the the two minute rule two minutes is all you need to change your life the way i try and remind myself of this ..."

"the dream as it were day to day and not and not so much worrying about the goal at the end of it [Music] productivity procrastination two things that all people aspiring to"

"two things that all people aspiring to success or really aspiring to get anything done often struggle with today we're going to try and solve that problem today i'm joined by ali abdul he is a creator..."

"millions and millions of subscribers he is a entrepreneur he's a cambridge graduate who came first at cambridge and he is a productivity expert and honestly he's read more books than anyone i think i'..."

"version of yourself this conversation isn't just about productivity and procrastination it ends up twisting and turning through a bunch of different topics like relationships and friendships and the m..."

"conversation ali is an incredibly intelligent intellectual compassionate self-aware individual and he's able to talk in a way that simplifies complex ideas for people like me and you so without furthe..."

"my name is stephen bartlett and this is the dire river ceo i hope nobody's listening but if you are then please keep this to yourself [Music]"

"i really start here with all my guests because i think it's so foundation foundational to everything that they then say they're after is getting a bit of context as to who you are where you came from ..."

"oh interesting question okay so um i was born in karachi in pakistan in 1994 so i'm 27 now and when i was two years old my mom and dad divorced and my mom moved us to"

"lesotho in southern africa uh it's a country most people haven't heard of it's surrounded by south africa like landlocked by south africa and we were there for about five six years growing up uh at th..."

"and bloody blind here's how you do it and i was so familiar with that stuff having taught it for five years um that that started to do reasonably okay early on in the days where i had like 51 subscrib..."

"i i had like 4 000 subscribers before just sort of slowly building up and then over the next few weeks it just exploded up to like 20 000 25 000 um and i was getting all these comments from people who..."

"will change your life at the very least in terms of the skills and the experience and the contacts and the friends you're going to make through that process but you have to put out one video a week an..."

"chapter where i talk about the eighth wonder of the world yeah that's it with warren buffett and my dog pablo being the opposing investor and i genuinely i think i learned that lesson when i wrote the..."

"cause i'm like okay this is taken care of i just show up i guess you're removing you're moving the mood as opposed to like removing it you're moving it to another pact like near il refers to it as wha..."

"and so what i do is anytime i find myself procrastinating from something i think okay am i procrastinating because i actually the task is too icky i i don't know what i have to do because once i know ..."

"from working out whether it's becoming more lean or becoming more strong are captured is the protein um here which has just come out and as you can see if anyone thinks i'm bullshitting about how much..."

"about you know people talk about how they'll put on their to-do list clean house and it'll sit on a to-do list and clean up that's a certain big thing and it'll and that'll sit on your to-do list for ..."

"really i really like that word fun like i think there's something about the word fun that is so like childish but also fully speaks to like fun basically means in intrinsic motivation like something i..."

"because and the stoic people talk about this i think i'll probably talk about this in the book as well because these are just like clearly the only idea that i have put them all in there um how they u..."

"always will be there and that was certainly the case for me and i from what i read about you where um you were talking about like outcomes and not being to attach the outcomes sounds like it might hav..."

"that i remind myself of on a basically daily basis where it's it's kind of like miley cyrus thing of it's the climb it's not about how fast i get there ain't about what's waiting on the other side it'..."

"and at the time my slave master was not a bad person he was a good person you know morally sound per you know and and and now obviously that's viewed as being an awful thing and it's the same within l..."

"when no one's around yep and i'm not having to tweet about my feelings to the world then i would assume that that is you know you said about learning and sorry teaching you've got enjoyment from that ..."

"or university studying with friends it's just always more fun than studying on my own and that wasn't true for everyone but it was certainly true for me um teaching on that list kind of help helping o..."

"than others will quitting framework yeah like if you have a good a good uh like quitting framework oh yeah you're very good at quitting then you'll actually you'll so if you're good at conducting expe..."

"because it's a certain one yeah you know i like uh like when i when i read that bit of the book the the quitting framework i was sort of retrospectively applying decisions i've made to quit to that th..."

"that until i read it in your book yeah well i didn't either and it was again that's why i have to specify that that's not the framework i've made my decisions through for my whole life in hindsight wh..."

"more often if for 365 days i actually just did the one thing that's the most important each day i've been making so much progress i'll be having so much fun and then i think to myself why don't i actu..."

"so it's that that's kind of the main concept basically test yourself more whatever that thing is and the second big one in the research is spaced repetition that anything we learn whether it's a fact ..."

"i think i think to a lot of people productivity just means efficiency and creating economic output the way that i define productivity is just kind of using my time well and working on things that are ..."

"i wonder if it's similar to like if i look at my instagram explore page about a year ago it used to be bikini models these days the dudes with six-pack abs and i look at that and there is a part of me..."

"it's just a very relevant thing in our culture which is quite quite strange that this incessant desire to be productive i think there's actually there is a rising counterculture which is about being o..."

"it whenever i have professional tasks that i need handling that is fiverr with two rs.com slash ceo you talked about relationships at the start of this podcast you said you said you you think you allu..."

"those those sorts of things and i think my kind of default way of being is very not that and like my idea of fun is singing disney songs and playing board games until two o'clock in the morning with t..."

"jealousy and you know if you're coming into relation to thinking why the [ __ ] is this person with me yeah the chance of you exhibiting jealous behavior and controlling behavior and manipulative beha..."

"don't want to be anyone who doesn't sing along disney songs because they're just great um yeah and you sing along to disney songs not because you're now being forced because you enjoy it yeah it's gen..."

"content yeah you make a lot of content and you've must have come to learn a lot about humans and psychology from all these videos you make you tinker around with the titles and the thumbnails and um a..."

"um i think you did a pretty great job of that as yeah yeah i'm learning i'm con you know continue to learn youtube's a bit of a new medium for me so it was good it's good to get that um that perspecti..."

"internally like right now we're not using money in the company like efficiently enough we're not hiring fast enough we're not doing this fast enough noting that fast enough um do you think you'll ever..."

"it's a good place yeah well i better because i said in the book do not so um how how do you think about money it's a question that you often ask you guys that i really want to ask you because yeah obv..."

"okay um convenience uh less time wasted yeah that's literally it that's literally it it offers me nothing else okay yeah well what do you think of money i think i think convenience is a big thing for ..."

"think at i don't think missing the airport queue will actually make me happier yep i don't think it will because unfortunately unfortunately fortunately i'm at a point where i don't think i could be h..."

"one knows what that is it's like a ridiculously expensive monitor that apple sell for like professionals and i really didn't need it but i was like it would be kind of cool to have on my desk and i kn..."

"people is that maybe sounds a bit argument but it's like i feel like my happiness is a 10 out of 10 right now and i really can't imagine that changing but it's still kind of cool to spend money on the..."

"um in security driven purchases this this one mental model that i think of which is that if if you were the only person in the world would you still buy the thing um i think when it comes to like new ..."

"this cycle of the pursuit of more stuff um one of the things i won't really call it mental model but one of the things i often come back to is oh i think you talk about in the book as well uh five reg..."

"following your intrinsic motivation rather than status prestige external exactly yeah it sounds like the other ones are all actually just yeah like offshoots of that yeah yeah and people as they're ab..."

"then in life yeah you'd really focus on what matters you know you've talked about such a diverse range of topics on your youtube channel and really about like help you know helping people as you know ..."

"that are enjoyable that will solve a lot of kind of problems when it comes to the things people often ask me about which is motivation procrastination burnout and and all that jazz i think another kin..."

"you kind of succeeded despite it and yeah it's just that that thing of accepting i think a lot of a lot of young people especially like the gen c the the gen z folks these days are in that mindset of ..."

"consequence of of having some creating a life where i had some [ __ ] to talk about you know and i think younger generations have that the wrong way around they're so obsessed about oh wouldn't it be ..."

"my bedroom is arguably greater than the impact i would have kind of just being a doctor not that there's anything wrong with just being a doctor of course did you hear that mum are you listening at le..."

"wealth and fame when you're young and while building skills while having fun um i think you know there are worse things chmath talks about that as well chamath papadea yeah said his name papadilla he ..."

"yeah um and there's a quote from apparently from jp morgan which is that a man always has two reasons for doing something a good reason and the real reason and so whenever people ask me why do you do ..."

"of living life listen thank you for your time ali thank you it's been a very long time yeah very lots of fun and you're such a diverse character that's really why i wanted to speak to you because you ..."