Ali Abdaal

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

"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 personally like having a Kindle on my bedside table because then if I'm struggling to go to sleep, I can just read like a spirituality book or something on Kindle."

"I wear a Whoop. I've got like a I've been using this for the last like 380 days or something. I've got a 380-day streak on it and so this gives me a sleep score."

"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"

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

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

"something like N8N, which I've been playing a lot with recently"

"I procrastinated for seven years before starting my YouTube channel."

"And he makes YouTube videos that help students land jobs in software engineering."

"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."

"Alternatively, you could do that with like Claude or ChatGPT."

"Alternatively, you could do that with like Claude or ChatGPT."

"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."

"You can just like talk to an AI like ChatGPT or Claude or something and it will help you turn vague lack of clarity goals into smart goals."

"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."

"You can just like talk to an AI like ChatGPT or Claude or something and it will help you turn vague lack of clarity goals into smart goals."

"You can just Google it or ask ChatGPT or Claude to give you a system for goal setting."

"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."

"You can just Google it or ask ChatGPT or Claude to give you a system for goal setting."

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

"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"

"My personal preference is Claude by Anthropic for most things"

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

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

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

"You can just like talk to an AI like ChatGPT or Claude or something and it will help you turn vague lack of clarity goals into smart goals."

"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."

"You can just like talk to an AI like ChatGPT or Claude or something and it will help you turn vague lack of clarity goals into smart goals."

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

"Once you pick a social media platform, you're going to post on it every day for the next 5 years. If someone's going to take LinkedIn seriously, they're going to post 1,800 times on LinkedIn over the next 5 years."

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

"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."

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

"I was at a writer's retreat where James Clear, the author of Atomic Habits, happened to be there and so we were hanging out."

"My wife actually had her own productivity system around dating where she had a Notion page where she was kind of taking notes after every date that she was going on."

"Basically, a free 20 minute, 30 minute Zoom consultation where you are basically trying to add a lot of value to them"

"You have people on LinkedIn"

"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 is a technique from the guys who wrote this book, Bill Bernard and Dave Evans"

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

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

"using simple automation tools like Zapier or like make.com"

"using simple automation tools like Zapier or like make.com"

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

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

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

"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"

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

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

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

"You could start posting on LinkedIn right now and no one would give a flying, right?"

"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."

"Basically, a free 20 minute, 30 minute Zoom consultation where you are basically trying to add a lot of value to them"

"You have people in your iPhone contact list. You have people on LinkedIn. You have followers on Instagram."

"Like whenever you're killing the monsters in World of Warcraft or whatever, you can see your experience bar going up and you can see yourself leveling up."

"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."

"This little pen that I have designed in collaboration with my favorite stationery brand, Baron Fig. If you're into fancy stationery like I am, you might like to check it out."

"The process that we teach our students in the Lifestyle Business Academy, which is my online business school"

"My name is Ali. I'm a doctor turned entrepreneur and author of the New York Times bestseller, Feelgood Productivity."

"I've got my own. It's called the GPS system. There'll be some videos over there somewhere on the channel."

"I'm currently mentoring a bunch of people who are building their first business because these guys are all trying to work towards financial freedom and so they're building towards 100k a year lifestyle business."

"I talk about in page 242 of my book, Feel Good Productivity"

"I was hosting a workshop for my online business school students where we help people start their first online businesses"

"The process that we teach our students in the Lifestyle Business Academy, which is my online business school"

"I run an online business school called the Lifestyle Business Academy where we help people like start businesses and get to 100K year in revenue."

"This is the exact thesis behind my New York Times bestselling book, Feelgood Productivity."

"I've actually trained a completely free custom GPT that can help you with this. It's called the Craft Skills GPT."

"We often have students in our Lifestyle Business Academy who are so concerned about starting a business but don't have the right idea."

"In my book, Feelgood Productivity, I talk a lot about the experimental mindset. In the book, there's nine chapters and each chapter has six different experiments you could try."