ideal Tuesday

concept · in 9 sources (2018–2020)

Design a career backwards from what an ordinary day in the life you want looks like.

Sources by year: 2018: 1 · 2019: 1 · 2020: 7

Also known as: lifestyle-first career, ideal end state

Questions

What the videos say

The most important statements of each year; all statements.

2020

2020-04-17 · Answering your Questions — Ali: Because the world is so uncertain, Ali calls a five- or ten-year plan a bit pointless; his principle, from Daniel Gross, is to maximise randomness and optionality, increasing the surface area for opportunity so he can seize serendipitous chances. — 00:04:51
2020-04-26 · What Makes People Successful? — recommendation: Hasan Kubba: On any career path, Hasan Kubba advises knowing what you are naturally good at: in career and business, double down on your strengths rather than fix your weaknesses; in personal life, work on your weaknesses. — 00:07:46
2020-04-29 · Productivity, Books and Careers Advice - Ali Abdaal x Noah Kagan // Deep Dive — recommendation: Noah Kagan: Noah encourages people to find the work they would do with a million dollars in the bank and do it now, because doing it is how they will earn the million. — 00:08:48
- Ali found listing what fulfils him a helpful exercise: those things would fill his ideal day, so he asks how to work towards a future where that is possible. — 00:30:03
- Torn at 17 between medicine and computer science, Ali chose medicine thinking a doctor who can code is cooler than a coder, and six years at university better than three. — 00:30:56
2020-07-01 · Why Motivation is a Myth — Ali: Splitting life into five-to-seven-year seasons, Ali, 26, hopes for at least 12 more, so he could get really good at 12 more things, such as salsa dancing or touring music. — 00:09:30
2020-07-03 · I'm Moving to America 🇺🇸 - Life Update — Ali: Whatever field we are in, Ali says, we want to keep our options open and maximise randomness and optionality, a phrase he likes to come back to. — 00:06:13
2020-07-13 · What We Learnt In 2 Years of Being Doctors - Deep Dive with Molly Hunt — Molly Hunt wishes she had known that doctors need not choose a specialty early: they can take time out or try different specialties before deciding what to train in. — 00:04:07
2020-12-20 · 20 Lessons that Improved My Life — Ali: Of Naval Ravikant's four components of an ideal life, Ali skews far too much toward money and career, and means to give more effort to physical health, mental health and relationships from the new year. (hedged) — 00:07:01
- Ali's hobby that makes money, and to an extent makes him smarter and more creative, is his YouTube channel; the one that keeps him healthy is the gym and above all racket sports: tennis, badminton and squash. — 00:07:30

2019

2019-12-27 (said on 2019-12-20, implied) · My Annual Review using Notion — recommendation: Ali thinks an annual review should include a bucket list, which can be as unrealistic as you like; he normally has at least 50 things on his. — 00:11:22
- Writing a wish on a bucket list gives it background processing, Ali says: having written down "learn archery", he is more likely to seek out lessons when an opportunity or a free afternoon comes up. — 00:11:51

2018

2018-08-24 · Answering personal questions - 50k subs Q&A — Ali: When choosing what to apply for about seven years earlier, Ali reasoned that a doctor who is also a real programmer is more marketable and interesting than just one of the two, so he applied for medicine to combine the fields, which he says has worked out nicely so far. — 00:04:43