go first

concept · in 4 sources (2018–2024)

Initiate contact; others are friendly but rarely make the first move.

Sources by year: 2018: 2 · 2020: 1 · 2024: 1

Also known as: everyone is friendly but you have to go first

Questions

The most important statements of each year; all statements.

2024-05-19 · Three Ways to Boost Your Self-Confidence 🙌 — recommendation: Ali gives three ways to boost self-confidence: enactive mastery experiences, vicarious mastery experiences and flipping the confidence switch. — 00:00:00

2020-06-12 (said on 2020-05-27, implied) · Crushes, Challenges and Irritating Habits - Q&A With My Roommate Molly — Ali says he tries not to think hard about outcomes: in a race, competing and doing his best is what matters to him, so he has no self-doubt, and thinking about winning seems pointless. — 00:12:13

2018-05-01 · First Live Hangout + Rapid-fire Q&A — Ali says confidence comes from competence: if you are good at something you will be confident at it, and confidence is domain-specific. — 00:25:05
- Ali is not confident at dancing because he is not good at it, but confident at what he knows he is good at, and he would never call himself generally incompetent or unconfident, which he thinks an unhelpful attitude. — 00:25:35
2018-05-02 · Exam Study Tips for University & A-Level students - Revision Q&A with Cambridge students — recommendation: Ali says the younger student has to make the effort to befriend older ones: an older student reaching out to a younger one feels a bit weird. — 00:08:54