Ali, drowning as a newly qualified junior doctor, questions the diagnosis and discovers feel-good productivity
story · status: told 7× · last event: retold (2024-04-24) · owner: Ali
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-07-20 | told | Ali began testing the idea that the secret to productivity is joy rather than discipline, experimenting on himself with ways to make his work more energising. | I Have a Huge Announcement 00:01:56 |
| 2023-12-26 | retold | Feel-Good Productivity came about because around 2018, working as a full-time doctor about 60 hours a week while building his business and channel, Ali felt overwhelmed and came home drained. | 3.5 Years And It’s Finally Ready… 00:01:56 |
| 2024-01-16 | retold | In his first months as a doctor Ali felt he was drowning: even working late into the night he could not see enough patients or finish his paperwork, he found the job utterly depressing, stopped sleeping, and friendships and family faded. | How to Achieve More While Working Less 00:01:31 |
| 2024-02-21 | retold | For his first few months as a doctor Ali was miserable, drained after work and without energy for what he wanted though good at time management; it came to a head one Christmas Day, and he realised he could make his work energising. | Stop Wasting Time - 5 Time Management Skills to Master 00:15:01 |
| 2024-03-28 | retold | While working full-time as a doctor and building his business and YouTube channel on the side, Ali was overwhelmed and thought the solution was to grind harder, with more discipline, grit and willpower. | Can every job "Feel Good"? 😌 00:00:00 |
| 2024-04-13 | retold | As a junior doctor in the NHS, where conditions were bad and still are, Ali had a grindy mentality: drained every day and not enjoying work, he believed he just had to struggle through because everyone says the first two years are the hardest. | The Problem With Hustle Mentality 🧠 00:00:00 |
| 2024-04-24 | retold | Ali realised that approaching his work as a doctor as if it were really stressful was a choice he was making, so he made a concerted effort to enjoy the day-to-day more, modelling doctors he had seen smiling at work. | The mindset shift that made me enjoy my job 💭 00:00:00 |
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- 2023-07-20 · I Have a Huge Announcement — Ali: Applying the joy idea, Ali found working as a doctor became fun: he got home from work more energised than when he started, with more energy for his channel, business and studies. — 00:01:56
- 2023-07-20 · I Have a Huge Announcement — Ali realised he had been approaching work wrongly with a grindy, discipline-based mindset; tweaking his mindset and applying a few strategies made it far more energising and enjoyable. — 00:02:26
- 2023-07-20 · I Have a Huge Announcement — Ali says it was once he made his work more energising, becoming more productive and less stressed, that his channel and business really started to take off. — 00:02:26
- 2023-12-26 · 3.5 Years And It’s Finally Ready… — Ali: After a few months of feeling burnt out as a doctor, Ali had had enough and went down a rabbit hole on productivity, drawing on the psychology degree he did during his six years of medical school. — 00:02:26
- 2024-01-16 · How to Achieve More While Working Less — Ali: As a newly qualified junior doctor, having forgotten three weeks earlier to fill out a form requesting the holidays off, Ali managed a hospital ward alone on Christmas Day; his consultant hung up with "Merry Christmas, Ali. Try not to kill anyone." — 00:00:00
- 2024-01-16 · How to Achieve More While Working Less — Ali: At the end of his hardest day, Ali remembered his old tutor Dr Barclay's words, "if the treatment isn't working, question the diagnosis", and began to doubt all the productivity advice he had absorbed. — 00:03:09
- 2024-01-16 · How to Achieve More While Working Less — Ali: When Ali let go of his obsession with discipline and focused on making work feel good, his junior-doctor shifts got easier and his mood improved; months later an elderly patient told him he was the first doctor in there who had smiled all week. — 00:13:10