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The Problem With Hustle Mentality 🧠

2024-04-13 · Short · Ali · recording, 0:53 · watch on YouTube

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

In a Short, Ali recalls his grindy mentality as a drained junior doctor in the NHS, waiting for milestones that never made life easier, and says that making medicine more energising and enjoyable is what unlocked the energy for his YouTube channel.

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00:00:00 — From a grindy junior doctor to finding energy for the channel

  • ★★★ As a junior doctor in the NHS, where conditions were bad and still are, Ali had a grindy mentality: drained every day and not enjoying work, he believed he just had to struggle through because everyone says the first two years are the hardest. — 00:00:00 · NHS
  • ★★ Ali believed that once he hit some arbitrary milestone, such as becoming a specialist or a consultant, his life would be chill, but people who had reached those milestones were also having a terrible time. — 00:00:00
  • ★★ Juggling a full-time job as a doctor with building his YouTube channel and business on the side, Ali had time in the evenings, working only 60 hours a week with about another 50 to play with, but he did not have the energy. — 00:00:29
  • ★★★ Ali says it was when he started actively finding ways to make medicine, his day job, more energising and enjoyable that he unlocked the energy to focus on his YouTube channel. — 00:00:29

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Central: hustle culture

Also: NHS

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