The importance of shaping your environment 🤔
2023-12-24 · Short · Ali · recording, 0:38 · watch on YouTube
Topic: Health, sleep and habits · mode: Personal story · tags: Feel-Good Productivity thesis, Lesson from a book, His medical past
In an extract from his book Feel-Good Productivity, Ali recalls struggling in 2018, as a full-time doctor, to make evening guitar practice a habit while his guitar was hidden behind the bookshelf, until James Clear's Atomic Habits led him to put it in the middle of the living room.
What is said
The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).
00:00:00 — The guitar hidden behind the bookshelf, moved to the middle of the living room
- ★★ Ali says that even when we know we should do something, we often find ourselves in places that make it needlessly difficult to get started. — 00:00:00 · friction
- ★★★ In 2018, working full-time as a doctor, Ali struggled to make evening guitar practice a habit: he kept procrastinating on the couch with his phone or the TV while his guitar was hidden behind the bookshelf in the corner. — 00:00:00
- ★★★ Reading James Clear's Atomic Habits showed Ali the obvious solution, putting the guitar in the middle of the living room, after which picking up the guitar became dramatically easier. — 00:00:00 · Atomic Habits, James Clear, friction
Threads in this video
- retold · Ali moves his guitar to where he can see it after reading Atomic Habits, and practising becomes easy — Ali retells moving his guitar after reading James Clear's Atomic Habits: this time it goes from behind the bookshelf to the middle of the living room, and picking it up becomes dramatically easier (in the 2020 telling it moved from across the living room to lean on the sofa after he reread the book). (00:00:00)
Mentioned
Central: Atomic Habits
Also: friction · James Clear
Only in the description or credits: Feel-Good Productivity (book)
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