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One of My Favourite Mindset Hacks 🧠

2024-06-17 · Short · Ali · recording, 0:47 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Productivity and time (also: Mindset, motivation and happiness) · mode: Personal story · tags: Feel-Good Productivity thesis, His medical past

In a Short, Ali advises reframing "I have to" as "I get to" or "I choose to", and recalls that in his first months as a doctor doing the bare minimum to save energy drained him, while taking ownership on busy weekend shifts energised him.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — The difference between "I have to" and "I get to"

  • ★★ Ali sees an enormous difference between "I have to do this" and "I get to do this": whenever we think we have to do something, we can reframe it in our minds as "I choose to do" it. — 00:00:00 · identified motivation
  • ★★ Ali says the way we think about something profoundly changes the way our physiology and body respond to it. — 00:00:00 · identified motivation

00:00:15 — The bare minimum as a junior doctor versus ownership on weekend shifts

  • ★★ In his first few months as a doctor, Ali made the mistake of trying to conserve energy by doing the bare minimum, doing what he was told and grinding it out, so as to get home with enough energy to film his YouTube videos. — 00:00:15
  • ★★ Ali says approaching anything half-heartedly really drains our energy and is not fun. — 00:00:29 · energisers and drainers
  • ★★ As a doctor, Ali felt oddly more energised after weekend shifts, though they were busier, and realised it was because on weekend shifts he took responsibility and more ownership of what he did. — 00:00:29

  • ★★★ Ali says that even when you have no control over what you are doing, you have enormous control over how you do it. — 00:00:29

    “even when you don't have control over what you're doing you have enormous control over how you're doing it”

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Mentioned

Central: autonomy · identified motivation

Also: energisers and drainers

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