This hack will level up your confidence ✅

2023-12-16 · Short · Ali · recording, 0:49 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Mindset, motivation and happiness · mode: Explanation and tutorial · tags: Feel-Good Productivity thesis, Lesson from a book

In an extract from his book Feel-Good Productivity, Ali advises asking how confident you actually need to feel to get started: for most everyday tasks, such as the gym, his business or his book, the answer is not very, so start even if badly.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — How confident you need to feel to get started

• ★★★ Ali advises asking yourself how confident you actually need to feel to get started, and whether you could start even while feeling unconfident; in most cases the answer is yes. — 00:00:00
• ★★ Ali would need to feel confident to perform neurosurgery, but for the everyday areas where he feels self-doubt, going to the gym, working on his business and writing his book, he does not need confidence to get started. — 00:00:00
• ★★★ When trying something new, Ali says, the idea that you should begin only when you feel confident is a blocker of its own; his solution is to start, even if you feel you are doing it badly. — 00:00:29

Threads in this video

• refine · How do you become more confident? — Ali advises asking yourself how confident you actually need to feel to get started, and whether you could start even while feeling unconfident; in most cases the answer is yes. (00:00:00)
• refine · How do you get past perfectionism and the fear of starting? — When trying something new, Ali says, the idea that you should begin only when you feel confident is a blocker of its own; his solution is to start, even if you feel you are doing it badly. (00:00:29)

Mentioned

Only in the description or credits: Feel-Good Productivity (book)

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