Ali Abdaal

"you can always just say to Claude or ChatGPT, hey give me a video script for this particular title and it's annoyingly good"

"you put your business idea into ChatGPT or Claude or Perplexity or whatever and you ask it to give you a market analysis"

"the book that I'm currently listening to on Audible, in this case, Dark Age by Pierce Brown."

"I realized this when I was listening to the Wheel of Time series on Audible."

"I have an account on Goodreads. It synchronizes with my Amazon Kindle account."

"the book that I'm currently reading on Kindle, in this case, The Personal MBA by Josh Kaufman"

"I've got Day One, which is a journaling app."

"I personally like the Kindle because the light means that I don't need to have like a reading light or whatever."

"the book that I'm currently listening to on Audible, in this case, Dark Age by Pierce Brown"

"On my days off, I will listen to fantasy fiction audio books by Brandon Sanderson usually"

"I've got Voice Pal, which is like a ghostwriter type app."

"I will immediately open up my phone, go to amazon.co.uk and just buy it on Kindle"

"I've got the Waking Up app, which is a meditation app."

"On my home screen, I also have Momentum, which is a habit tracker."

"I have my AirPods in and I'm usually listening to some kind of audio book."

"Thousands of people attend every time. It's on Zoom."

"you put your business idea into ChatGPT or Claude or Perplexity or whatever and you ask it to give you a market analysis"

"The biggest place where we actually learned the skills of being a doctor was in fact right here on YouTube. The amount of stuff you can learn on YouTube these days is literally like the best medical physiology lectures in the world."

"and also breath by James Neestor which is all about kind of the power of like nasal breathing rather than mouth breathing which also helps when I'm on my runs."

"I recently also relisted to The Psychology of Money by Morgan Hel, which is fantastic."

"The one I'm reading right now is called Backwards with Purpose. Really, really good. I'm like 80% of the way through it. It's absolutely sick."

"There are also things like Whisper Flow and the built-in dictation on Windows and Mac"

"I use a Whoop to track my sleep, but you don't need it."

"I will read like Harry Potter fanfiction"

"I'd be listening to audio books, usually at double speed, often fantasy fiction audio books by Brandon Sanderson"

"We use Notion to basically plan out all aspects of video production. And I have a really good one on how to get started with Notion."

"I've used Zapier. I've used Make. I've used n8n before. I kind of get the theory around how to automate stuff."

"I used to be addicted to a video game called World of Warcraft, which I've been playing on and off for the last like 15 years."

"I've used Zapier. I've used Make. I've used n8n before. I kind of get the theory around how to automate stuff."

"If it's on a Zoom call, we get out a Figma board and put Post-it notes on the thing and we just do this as a messy, divergent, creative process."

"They've built like Zapier and Make and recently n8n automations at work or in side projects."

"I've been using the app since 2019. It has been my email client since then. I've tried all sorts of other email apps in that time and I keep on going back to Superhuman Mail because it is by far my favorite way of getting through my emails"

"We use a plug-in called Fire Cut, which is an AI plugin to speed up editing"

"The one we've been using for the last 5 years is called Grain"

"Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. Absolutely fantastic."

"The Debt of Time, which is a story of like Hermione bringing Sirius back from the dead. Absolutely fantastic book."

"Harry Potter and the Year of Darkness, which follows book seven, but from Neville's point of view being at Hogwarts."

"Manacult, which is a sort of like post-apocalyptic very dark-like thing."

"you can plow that money into things like stock market index funds"

"doing content on social media every single day, probably on LinkedIn because that tends to be where richer people hang out"

"The easiest way to get started using this is to just have it as like a blank Google Doc. You can name that Google Doc your focus log."

"One of my favorite writing techniques is called the splurge. You set a timer for 10 minutes and then you type on your keyboard as fast as you possibly can and you don't allow yourself to delete anything."

"If you're struggling to figure out what to do with your career, this is a framework that really helped me. It's based on the four Fs, which is broadly what people look for when it comes to a career."

"This is where something like the SMART goals framework is actually quite helpful. You know, it's got its issues, but like you know set a goal that's specific, measurable, attainable or achievable, relevant, and timebound."

"A good time management system involves time blocking, which is basically where you stick blocks in your calendar for the stuff that is important to you."

"This is an amazing exercise... It's completely changed my life. And I guarantee that if you do the exercise, it will give you so much clarity"

"It's from the book Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans who are Stanford business school professors. And they talk about this question of how to figure out what to do with your life."

"if you want something free, then Fathom is usually one that I recommend"

"There is a wonderful book by my friend Nir Eyal called Indistractible, which is basically about how to take control of your attention span."

"If you are struggling with staying focused on anything at all, just tell yourself you're going to do it for 5 minutes."

"This is something I learned from Jonathan Haidt's amazing book The Anxious Generation."

"you might want to read fourth wing or some romanty thing or whatever"

"The final rule relates to something that James Clear talks about a lot in his book atomic habits which is the identity shift."

"I've never managed to finish a Charles Dickens book."

"The final rule relates to something that James Clear talks about a lot in his book atomic habits"

"This brings us on to the next rule which is a tip I got from Naval Ravikant. And the rule here is read what you love until you love to read."

"It's a really long series by Robert Jordan where the final three books are written by Brandon Sanderson."

"Gary Keller has a book, The One Thing."

"Cal Newport's book, Slow Productivity, talks a lot about this."

"Greg McKeown has a book, Essentialism."

"most people still don't have access to VO3 or have not used it to try and start TikTok accounts or Instagram pages or YouTube channels"

"You can use an Apple Watch, you can use a phone, or you can just aim to sleep 9 hours a night."

"It's easy enough to create like a very basic mockup of an app using something like Lovable or whatever."

"I've also built a full YouTube production system in Clipflow, and content is now running like clockwork."

"How do you make a thumbnail using AI, using Photoshop, using Canva, using whatever."

"Very recently he actually launched his own physical product, New Tonic, which is going really well."

"How do you make a thumbnail using AI, using Photoshop, using Canva, using whatever."

"In a world where AI writes a lot of code for you, it's not that you're going to be the one typing out the functions and the classes, but the skill of coding is about being like the architect of the system and letting the AI do a lot of the work for you."

"Of course, you can turn this into a Google sheet."

"Yeah, he's got a website, but it's just like a GoDaddy sort of landing page."

"One of the most popular systems is the Calgary Cambridge method of patient interviewing, which is like a whole system for what sort of questions as a doctor you need to ask the patient."

"Like a lot of these businesses were e-commerce businesses where they're sort of selling stuff and building brands to sell via Shopify or Amazon FBA."

"Like a lot of these businesses were e-commerce businesses where they're sort of selling stuff and building brands to sell via Shopify or Amazon FBA."

"There's Gamma, there's beautiful.ai, Figma, Slides now has some AI generation tools"

"you can use ChatGPT, you can use Grock, you can use Claude, you can use Gemini"

"There's Gamma, there's beautiful.ai, Figma, Slides now has some AI generation tools"

"Nicole could use an app like Text Expander. She could create a keyboard shortcut"

"I think I got this from Dan Martell's book, Buy Back Your Time"

"you can use ChatGPT, you can use Grock, you can use Claude, you can use Gemini"

"What is the TED talk that I would really like to be giving 30 years from now?"

"It's about like how to do interview prep, how to do LeetCode prep, how to set up your resume and all that kind of stuff."

"I was like, 'Okay, well, I should probably read Sapiens cuz everyone is reading Sapiens and it was kind of boring and I got stuck on it for like three months"

"I've tried reading Wuthering Heights and it was like boring."

"When you see films like The Wolf of Wall Street and stuff and you see the stuff like 'Sell me this pen.' It frames sales as this sleazy adversarial thing."

"I have managed to connect Claude Code to basically all of my files on a dedicated folder. It knows what projects I'm working on, what goals I'm working on."

"I use Claude Co-work when I'm on my Mac. I can get it to do things like generating slideshows, presentations, searching the web, doing deep research."

"We've been using ManyChat for many years now, not only to send links, but also to ask new followers about what content they'd like to see or guide them through a personalized conversation or collect emails for like a marketing campaign."

"Me and my wife have both independently been using Trading 212 for the last like 5 plus years to manage our investments. This was way before they started sponsoring my stuff."

"Recently, I took the How to Draw class by Brent Everston because I've been trying to get into art."

"Grammarly comes in super handy because you can basically just take the whole document, chuck it into Grammarly, and then Grammarly can basically clean up the mess of the splurge that you've written yourself."

"I have been using and loving Brilliant since like 2019"

"Short Form is basically like having your most intelligent friend break down a book for you."

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"If you're serious about growing your YouTube channel this year, then you're going to want to check out three of my courses that are actually available on Skillshare that are very kindly sponsoring this video."

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