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How to help yourself by helping someone else ❤️

2024-02-25 · Short · Ali · recording, 0:42 · watch on YouTube

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

Ali recalls buying 20p scones for the nurses on his ward during the COVID lockdown and uses it to explain the helper's high from the people chapter of Feel-Good Productivity: helping someone, even in a small way, makes both of you feel good and energised.

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

00:00:00 — Scones for the nurses in lockdown and the helper's high

  • ★★ During the COVID lockdown Ali's hospital cafeteria sold scones for 20p, and when he went to lunch he brought back six, one for each of the roughly six nurses on the ward. — 00:00:00 · COVID-19
  • ★★ Ali calls the £1.20 of scones for the nurses a very high return: they knew he had paid and that the scones cost 20p, but the gesture made them happy and made him happy. — 00:00:13
  • ★★★ Ali says the helper's high, from the people chapter (chapter three) of Feel-Good Productivity, comes from feeling you have helped someone even in a small way; it makes them and you feel good and everything more energised and enjoyable, a core part of feel-good productivity. — 00:00:29 · Feel-Good Productivity (book), play, power, people, feel-good productivity (concept)

Threads in this video

  • refine · How do you have more energy during the day? — Ali says the helper's high, from the people chapter (chapter three) of Feel-Good Productivity, comes from feeling you have helped someone even in a small way; it makes them and you feel good and everything more energised and enjoyable, a core part of feel-good productivity. (00:00:29)

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Central: helper's high

Also: COVID-19 · Feel-Good Productivity (book) · feel-good productivity (concept)

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