How to stop fear holding you back 💪
2024-01-01 · Short · Ali · recording, 0:39 · watch on YouTube
Topic: Mindset, motivation and happiness · mode: Personal story · tags: Feel-Good Productivity thesis
In an extract from his book Feel-Good Productivity, Ali says it took him seven years to launch his business, a YouTube channel he had wanted to start since 2010; he first blamed perfectionism but now sees that fear held him back, and understanding it let him name it as his main obstacle.
What is said
The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).
00:00:00 — Seven years to start his YouTube channel, and the fear behind it
- ★★ Ali says it took him seven years to launch his business: he had wanted to start a YouTube channel since 2010, but whenever he thought about shooting the first video, some force stopped him. — 00:00:00 · YouTube
- ★★★ Ali at first thought he was putting off his YouTube channel out of perfectionism; looking back, he says he was wrong and fear held him back, a voice saying it would not work and he was not good enough. — 00:00:00 · YouTube
- ★★ Ali thinks the main reason it took him almost a decade to overcome his fear of starting a YouTube channel was that he did not understand it and had no words for what stopped him filming. (hedged) — 00:00:00 · YouTube
- ★★ Once Ali began to understand the role fear played in his life, he could identify it as the primary obstacle standing between him and his ambitions. — 00:00:29
Threads in this video
- refine · How do you get past perfectionism and the fear of starting? — Once Ali began to understand the role fear played in his life, he could identify it as the primary obstacle standing between him and his ambitions. (00:00:29)
Mentioned
Only in the description or credits: Feel-Good Productivity (book)
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