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Shift Your Mindset 🧠

2024-06-20 · Short · Ali · recording, 0:28 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Mindset, motivation and happiness · mode: Explanation and tutorial · tags: Lesson from a book, Feel-Good Productivity thesis

In a Short, Ali passes on a Seth Godin blog post: reframe "I have to do X" as "I choose to", "I get to" or "I am blessed to be able to do X", which he calls his single biggest practical takeaway, since everything is a choice.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — "I have to" versus "I get to", from a Seth Godin blog post

  • ★★ From a Seth Godin blog post he read years ago and still thinks back to, Ali takes the 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 as "I choose to", "I get to" or "I am blessed to be able to" do it. — 00:00:00 · Seth Godin, identified motivation

  • ★★★ Ali calls the have-to/get-to reframe his single biggest practical takeaway: the next time you feel you have to do something, change it in your head, because you don't actually have to do anything; everything is a choice. — 00:00:00 · identified motivation

    “you don't actually have to do anything everything is a choice”

Mentioned

Central: identified motivation · The Gap Between 'Have To' and 'Get To'

Also: Seth Godin

Also centred on The Gap Between 'Have To' and 'Get To': Monthly Favourites #8 - Ali Abdaal

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