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You need to lower the bar ⬇️

2024-05-26 · Short · Ali · recording, 0:46 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Productivity and time · mode: Explanation and tutorial · tags: His own products discussed, Evidence-based framing

Ali says we procrastinate when a task feels like a big deal, as his book did, and that the evidence says to lower the bar: aim for a video to help one person and to enjoy the process; the more you struggle, the lower the bar should go.

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00:00:00 — Procrastination and lowering the bar

  • ★★ Ali says one of the big reasons we procrastinate is that the thing we are trying to do feels like a big deal. — 00:00:00
  • ★★ Ali procrastinated a lot writing his book Feel-Good Productivity because a book felt like a big deal: a publisher, printing, and a printed thing feels very different to a Google Doc. — 00:00:00 · Feel-Good Productivity (book), Google Docs
  • ★★★ Ali says the evidence on procrastination is to lower the bar; for his YouTube videos that means aiming for a video to help at least one person, which is broadly under his control, rather than a million views, and aiming to enjoy the process. — 00:00:00 · YouTube
  • ★★★ Ali says raising the bar is how some Olympic athletes reach high performance, but if you are not at that level and struggle with procrastination, the more you struggle, the more you should lower the bar. — 00:00:29

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Feel-Good Productivity (book) · Google Docs

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