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53 statements about leave money on the table in 29 sources, by upload date.

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2023

  • 2023-01-16 · Caspar Lee on the Struggles of Being a YouTuber #shorts — recommendation: Caspar Lee says that if you let the good make you happy you let the bad make you sad, so creators should avoid getting too excited when things go well and try to find happiness elsewhere. — 00:00:29
  • 2023-07-01 · I Asked MKBHD and Mrwhosetheboss How to Grow on YouTube — Ali says that if you keep trying to appease the audience and chase the numbers, forcing yourself to make videos you do not enjoy for the algorithm or subscribers, YouTube becomes a second job and is not a sustainable way to grow a channel. — 00:01:17
  • 2023-07-01 · I Asked MKBHD and Mrwhosetheboss How to Grow on YouTube — Marques Brownlee says the number one reason he stays consistent is that it is fun: his team are tech and video nerds, and trying a new piece of tech every day is the dream. — 00:07:26
  • 2023-07-01 · I Asked MKBHD and Mrwhosetheboss How to Grow on YouTube — recommendation: Ali's first method for staying consistent on YouTube is to find a way to make it fun and make it feel good. — 00:08:19
  • 2023-09-01 · 8 Steps That Got Me Millions of Subscribers on YouTube — Ali's fourth habit: almost from day one he has treated YouTube as an infinite game, played to keep playing rather than to win, which he credits for lasting six years on YouTube. — 00:05:10
  • 2023-09-01 · 8 Steps That Got Me Millions of Subscribers on YouTube — Ali says the point of doing YouTube is not to make money but to make videos that help people while having fun, and if it is not fun there is no point doing it. — 00:11:14
  • 2023-10-26 · How to Avoid Burnout 😫 — recommendation: Ali: When making videos starts to feel like a chore or a job, Ali reminds himself that he did not leave his day job for this, and looks for whatever makes the work feel good, energising and enjoyable. — 00:00:29
  • 2023-10-27 · 7 Science-Backed Ways to Reduce Stress — Ali: Many creators and entrepreneurs Ali has spoken to say they should have recognised the early warning signs of overwhelm or burnout, since they could have acted instead of powering through. — 00:07:26
  • 2023-11-28 · If I Wanted to Grow An Audience in 2026, I'd Do This — Ali says there is no magic bullet for consistency: it takes patience, because results take a long time, and faith that doing the right things and showing up consistently will eventually bring them. — 00:06:23
  • 2023-12-08 · Everything's Changing - Life Update — Ali: A friend who sold a company for over $100 million told Ali that the big realisation among post-exit founders is that it is okay to leave money on the table: a life you love often costs you money. — 00:26:13
  • 2023-12-08 · Everything's Changing - Life Update — Ali: Before you reach financial freedom or security, Ali says, you have to choose the more-money option: someone working several jobs to feed a family cannot leave money on the table. — 00:28:11
  • 2023-12-08 · Everything's Changing - Life Update — Ali's big realisation after months of soul-searching: once you have enough money for your basic needs, it is okay to leave money on the table and make less for balance, health, relationships, family and hobbies. — 00:30:54
  • 2023-12-08 · Everything's Changing - Life Update — April Perry (quoted): April Perry, an entrepreneur who replied to Ali's newsletter, says people never mention the mental and emotional costs of chasing more money, and once her family's financial needs are covered, money is the first thing she will leave on the table. — 00:31:23
  • 2023-12-08 · Everything's Changing - Life Update — announcement: Ali's decision for his business: from now on he will film videos only when he feels like it, even if uploads become less frequent and the videos suit most of the audience less. — 00:32:16
  • 2023-12-08 · Everything's Changing - Life Update — Ali makes a public pledge that he is now officially okay with leaving money on the table. — 00:34:35
  • 2023-12-20 · 4 Books That Changed My Life — Ali's takeaway from The Practice: when you ship creative work, focus on the process, do not get attached to the outcome, and show up like a professional, getting better over time; that itself is the reward. — 00:04:00
  • 2023-12-20 · 4 Books That Changed My Life — Ali: The happiest creators Ali knows detach themselves from the outcome: they keep showing up, focus on the process and count it a win to get the video out. — 00:05:28

2022

  • 2022-02-25 · How to Grow on YouTube - Live Stream with Ali Abdaal — Ali thinks the key to staying consistent on YouTube is to make it fun: if YouTube is fun for you, you would not think of it as work. — 00:17:31
  • 2022-03-03 · How To Start a YouTube Channel - Beginner’s Guide to YouTube — Ali: Turning YouTube into a business has made it more fun for Ali overall, but having to make money from it takes a little of the joy out of the craft. — 00:17:47
  • 2022-03-30 · This Book Made Me a Happier Person — Ali: Applying the separation of tasks, Ali became a lot happier when he tried to stop caring how his videos perform; he used to feel very worried when one did badly. — 00:15:48
  • 2022-05-12 · What Am I Doing With My Life? — Ali: In case Ali stops wanting to make weekly videos, he wants to make his business more anti-fragile by building brands that are not intrinsically tied to him. — 00:16:24
  • 2022-05-12 · What Am I Doing With My Life? — Ali finds that the more he dissociates himself from the numbers, the better: he does not look at a video's views, which is his producer Jamie's job. — 00:24:01
  • 2022-07-22 · How Much YouTube Paid Me For 10M Views — Ali: Treating his videos as investments puts Ali in the right mindset: he expects a return over the long term, so he is less attached to how a video does in its first 24 hours. — 00:02:55
  • 2022-07-22 · How Much YouTube Paid Me For 10M Views — Ali does not treat revenue as the main metric for his channel and would rather make videos about things he is passionate about. — 00:07:18
  • 2022-07-26 · 28 Life Lessons from 28 Years in 28 Minutes — Ali: Monetising passions can take the fun away: YouTubers Ali spoke to enjoyed making videos part-time, but once full-time it became a job. — 00:19:39
  • 2022-08-05 · How to Start an Email Newsletter — recommendation: Ali advises against starting a newsletter, YouTube channel or TikTok to make money from day one: early on, when nobody watches or reads, extrinsic motivation is a hard reason to keep doing it. — 00:05:21
  • 2022-08-05 · How to Start an Email Newsletter — Ali: Whenever Ali feels weird about his YouTube channel it is because he is over-optimising for the numbers; his newsletter, a public journal sent to readers he considers friends, makes it easy not to care about them. — 00:06:49
  • 2022-11-01 · A Day in My Life as a YouTuber — Ali: Whenever Ali thinks of the selfish gain he will get from making a video, making it no longer feels good and starts to feel like a chore. — 00:03:59
  • 2022-11-01 · A Day in My Life as a YouTuber — recommendation: Ali: When Ali stops thinking about the numbers on the screen and asks whether a video will be helpful to at least one person in the world, all his overthinking goes away. — 00:03:59
  • 2022-11-01 · A Day in My Life as a YouTuber — Ali: Imagining one person coming up to him one day to say they liked his video on a topic makes Ali want to make that video and feel good making it. — 00:04:31
  • 2022-11-04 · How To Build A Life You Love — Ali: In the Part-Time YouTuber Academy, Ali says, those who stick to YouTube consistently tend to form accountability groups: two or three people on a weekly Zoom call holding each other accountable. — 00:18:13

2021

2020

  • 2020-11-15 · How I Gained 1 MILLION Subscribers — Ali has recently taken up the philosophy of doing the work so you can keep doing it: YouTube is an infinite game with no end goal, and he wants to keep playing because it is fun, profitable and helps people. — 00:24:26
  • 2020-12-28 (said on 2020-12-15, implied) · How Much Money I Earn as a Doctor + YouTuber — Ali: About 80% of the time his work feels more like play than work to Ali; without enjoying it, he says, he could not have kept up his consistency and output. — 00:17:45

2019

  • 2019-02-11 · 3 Books that Changed my Life — Derek Sivers (quoted): In Anything You Want, Derek Sivers writes: never forget why you are really doing what you do; if you help people, they are happy, you are happy and you are profitable, isn't that enough? — 00:08:35
  • 2019-02-11 · 3 Books that Changed my Life — Ali says a lot of burnout among entrepreneurs, YouTubers and bloggers comes from working too hard to grow the numbers and the audience, and recommends Anything You Want to anyone stuck in that position. — 00:11:20
  • 2019-02-14 · Valentine’s Day Live Stream — Ali thinks a big reason YouTubers burn out is trying too hard to please the audience; he focuses on making the videos he wants to make, as long as they are good. — 00:31:05