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Can you make someone smile today? 😊

2023-12-26 · Short · Ali · recording, 0:50 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Productivity and time · mode: Personal story · tags: Feel-Good Productivity thesis, His medical past

In an extract from his book Feel-Good Productivity, Ali recalls offering the nurses cups of tea between patients as a doctor, which lifted team morale, and says random acts of kindness boost your endorphins and help you work harder.

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00:00:00 — Cups of tea for the nurses and other random acts of kindness

  • ★★ When Ali worked as a doctor, he offered to make the nurses tea whenever he went to make himself a cup between patients, and this tiny act seemed to have a weirdly significant effect on team morale. — 00:00:00
  • ★★ Ali vividly remembers offering Julie, one of the senior nurses, a cup of tea at the height of the COVID pandemic: she looked as if he had offered her a winning lottery ticket. — 00:00:00 · COVID-19
  • ★★★ Ali says that stopping what you are doing to offer help to people at random can boost your endorphin levels and help you work harder. — 00:00:00 · feel-good productivity (concept)
  • ★★ Ali suggests building kindnesses into every day: if an office colleague looks bored or burned out, take them out for lunch instead of eating a sandwich at your desk. — 00:00:29
  • ★★ Ali lists random acts of kindness such as making a colleague a drink, writing a friend a thank-you note or offering a stranger your place in line, all subtle but subtly transformative. — 00:00:29

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COVID-19 · feel-good productivity (concept)

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

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