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The Comrade Mindset 👏

2023-12-28 · Short · Ali · recording, 0:37 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Mindset, motivation and happiness · mode: Explanation and tutorial · tags: Feel-Good Productivity thesis, His medical past

In an extract from his book Feel-Good Productivity, Ali recalls the competition at medical school, where one student hoarded library textbooks, and suggests moving from a competitive mindset towards a comrade mindset by thinking of the people you work alongside as your team.

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00:00:00 — Competition at medical school and the comrade mindset

  • ★★ Ali did not like the sense of competition at medical school, where everyone was trying to get the highest grade, the academic prize and the best slot in the residency programme. — 00:00:00
  • ★★ At medical school, Ali says, some took the competitive mindset a little far: one student he knew would take out multiple copies of the same textbook from the library so that others could not use it. — 00:00:00
  • ★★ Competitive environments like medical school, Ali says, encourage people to see their lives as a zero-sum game, in which for them to win others have to lose. — 00:00:00

  • ★★★ Ali, who says he eventually learned this, advises deliberately thinking of the people you work alongside as part of your team, moving from a competitive mindset towards a comrade mindset. — 00:00:00

    “What would it look like if the people you worked with weren't competitors but comrades instead?”

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Central: comrade mindset

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

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