Lewis Howes helps Ali see on The School of Greatness that fear holds him back from leaving medicine (2021)
story · status: told 3× · last event: retold (2026-10-05) · owner: Ali
About: Lewis Howes, School of Greatness
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-10-20 | told | Ali is still not decided whether to pursue medicine in the long term; a few weeks earlier he had a great chat about it with Lewis Howes on Howes's podcast School of Greatness. | Everything's Changing - Life Update 00:36:32 |
| 2021-11-30 | retold | Interviewed by Lewis Howes on his podcast The School of Greatness, which Ali calls amazing, Ali found a talk about multiple streams of income turning into a coaching session on whether to stay in medicine. | Why I Left Medicine... Forever 00:14:51 |
| 2026-10-05 | retold | Interviewed by Lewis Howes on The School of Greatness while he was a part-time doctor, Ali was helped to see that fear of losing status and prestige was what held him back from going full-time as an entrepreneur. | I spent 8 years training to be a doctor. Then I quit 00:00:44 |
What is said about it
7 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2021-10-20 · Everything's Changing - Life Update — Ali admires what Tim Ferriss, Lex Fridman and Lewis Howes's School of Greatness have done with the podcast format; Ferriss's content started off all about himself, with The 4-Hour Workweek, The 4-Hour Chef and The 4-Hour Body. — 00:08:13
- 2021-10-20 · Everything's Changing - Life Update — Ali had kept medicine as a backup in case his business came crashing down. — 00:37:52
- 2021-10-20 · Everything's Changing - Life Update — Ali: Asked by Lewis Howes how much he would make as a doctor, Ali put it at 40K a year. — 00:37:52
- 2021-10-20 · Everything's Changing - Life Update — Ali had not appreciated the skills he gained from videos and business: even if he lost everything and the channel disappeared overnight, he would probably still find a way to support himself and his family. (hedged) — 00:37:52
- 2021-10-20 · Everything's Changing - Life Update — Lewis Howes (quoted): Lewis Howes told Ali that people follow him for advice on being more productive, a better student or living their best life, and that no one really cares whether he sees patients one day a week. — 00:40:20
- 2021-11-30 · Why I Left Medicine... Forever — Lewis Howes challenges Ali: with all the energy, thought and skill he has developed, would he really be unable to launch a new revenue stream if his others ran dry? — 00:15:48
- 2021-11-30 · Why I Left Medicine... Forever — Ali: After Lewis Howes's challenge Ali saw that the skills he built online over five to ten years, making websites since 13, would let him earn more if needed, so keeping medicine as a fallback salary was irrational. — 00:16:12