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How I tricked my brain into enjoying work 👨‍💻

2024-03-29 · Short · Ali · recording, 0:52 · watch on YouTube

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

In a Short, Ali recalls making video editing after his day job feel good, with play, power and people and by levelling up transitions and animations, until four hours of editing beat four hours of Netflix and left him less drained than a session of World of Warcraft.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — Making evening video editing more enjoyable than Netflix or World of Warcraft

  • ★★ Needing to do lots of work to make his business successful and become financially free, Ali set out to find a way to make that work feel really good. — 00:00:00
  • ★★★ When he worked his day job Ali looked forward to editing videos in the evening; on days he did not, he used play, power and people, did it differently or levelled up a transition or animation, almost convincing himself that four hours of editing felt more enjoyable than four hours of Netflix. — 00:00:00 · play, power, people, Netflix
  • ★★ When friends told Ali he was working too hard, he went back to World of Warcraft, once his addiction, on a gaming PC he could now afford, and found himself more drained after a gaming session than after an editing session. — 00:00:29 · World of Warcraft

Threads in this video

  • refine · How do you make boring work more enjoyable? — When he worked his day job Ali looked forward to editing videos in the evening; on days he did not, he used play, power and people, did it differently or levelled up a transition or animation, almost convincing himself that four hours of editing felt more enjoyable than four hours of Netflix. (00:00:00)
  • retold · Ali's years of playing World of Warcraft — When friends told Ali he was working too hard, he went back to World of Warcraft, once his addiction, on a gaming PC he could now afford, and found himself more drained after a gaming session than after an editing session. (00:00:29)

Mentioned

Netflix · play, power, people · World of Warcraft

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