I love this journalling prompt ✍️

2023-10-20 · Short · Ali · recording, 0:46 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Goals, purpose and life design · mode: Personal story · tags: His own numbers

In a Short, Ali offers the journaling prompt "What is one mistake that you're glad you made?" and answers it with the MacBook scam that cost him his life savings about ten years earlier, which pushed him to start his first business and, through it, his YouTube channel.

What is said

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — Journaling prompt: one mistake you are glad you made; the MacBook scam

• ★★ Ali offers a journaling prompt he calls fun: what is one mistake that you are glad you made? — 00:00:00

  “What is one mistake that you're glad you made?”

• ★★★ About ten years earlier Ali was scammed out of his entire life savings when he bought a dodgy MacBook from a seller on Craigslist; it turned out to be completely defunct. — 00:00:00 · MacBook

• ★★ Ali says losing his life savings in the MacBook scam lit a fire under him: he decided then to make the money back and to make that moment a turning point he would be glad of ten years later. — 00:00:00 · MacBook
• ★★ Ali says losing his life savings helped him start his first business, which made over a hundred times what he lost and led directly to his YouTube channel, started six years earlier, which has made over a thousand times the loss. — 00:00:29
• ★★ Ali says the MacBook scam felt at the time like one of the worst things that had ever happened to him, but looking back it is definitely one of the best. — 00:00:29 · MacBook

Threads in this video

• refine · Should you journal, and how? — Ali offers a journaling prompt he calls fun: what is one mistake that you are glad you made? (00:00:00)
• retold · Ali is scammed out of about $1,000 of his life savings trying to buy a MacBook Air from a seller on Gumtree — Retold as a mistake he is glad he made: about ten years earlier Ali lost his entire life savings on a dodgy, completely defunct MacBook bought from a seller on Craigslist (Gumtree in his 2022 telling). (00:00:00)
• refine · How do you deal with rejection and failure? — Ali says losing his life savings in the MacBook scam lit a fire under him: he decided then to make the money back and to make that moment a turning point he would be glad of ten years later. (00:00:00)

Mentioned

Craigslist · MacBook

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