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The mindset shift that made me enjoy my job 💭

2024-04-24 · Short · Ali · recording, 0:48 · watch on YouTube

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

In a Short, Ali says that as a doctor he realised treating his work as stressful was his own choice, so he set out to enjoy it with lightness, as if playing a game, inspired by Derek Shepherd's "it's a beautiful night to save lives, let's have some fun" from Grey's Anatomy.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — Stress at work as a choice; Derek Shepherd's beautiful night to save lives

  • ★★ Ali realised that approaching his work as a doctor as if it were really stressful was a choice he was making, so he made a concerted effort to enjoy the day-to-day more, modelling doctors he had seen smiling at work. — 00:00:00
  • ★★ Ali often thought of a line from Grey's Anatomy: when neurosurgeon Derek Shepherd starts an operation, he puts music on and tells his team it is a beautiful night to save lives and to have some fun. — 00:00:00
  • ★★★ Even in neurosurgery, with life and death in the balance, Ali says you can still have fun along the way, and he has found that this is largely a choice we make ourselves rather than something the environment forces on us. — 00:00:31

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Derek Shepherd · Grey's Anatomy

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