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How to enjoy everything you do 🥹

2024-01-13 · Short · Ali · recording, 0:54 · watch on YouTube

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

In an extract from his book Feel-Good Productivity, Ali retells being asked at the end of a hospital shift to put in a patient's IV line and reframing his resentment from "I have to" to "I choose to"; "have to" is coercive language, "choose to" affirms autonomy and makes you feel powerful.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — Asked to put in an IV line at the end of a shift, and the grateful patient next door

  • ★★ As a doctor, asked just before leaving to put an IV line into a patient in bed 4, Ali felt resentment, until he overheard another patient telling her husband how grateful she was to the doctors and nurses. — 00:00:00

00:00:29 — From "have to" to "choose to"

  • ★★ Ali could not choose whether to put in the IV drip, but he could change his mindset: telling himself "I choose to do this", or even "I'm blessed to do this", he walked into the patient's bay smiling. — 00:00:29 · identified motivation

  • ★★★ "Have to", Ali says, is coercive language that makes you feel powerless; "choose to" is autonomy-affirming language that makes you feel powerful. — 00:00:29 · identified motivation

    “Choose to is autonomy affirming language that makes you feel powerful.”

  • ★★ Whenever you feel you must do something, Ali advises thinking again and looking for a way to turn the "have to" into a "choose to". — 00:00:29 · identified motivation

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Mentioned

Central: identified motivation

Also: autonomy · McDonald's

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

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