How To Find Your Life's Purpose

2024-07-18 · Short · Ali · recording, 0:29 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Goals, purpose and life design · mode: Personal story · tags: His medical past

In a Short, Ali retells how, unsure whether he wanted to do medicine, he asked what he wanted on his gravestone (good father, good husband, inspirational teacher), worked back from it and saw he had most fun teaching medical students, so he set out to teach more.

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00:00:00 — The gravestone question and working back from it to teaching

• ★★ Trying to work out what to do with his life, Ali asked himself what he wants written on his gravestone and quickly landed on some combination of good father, good husband and inspirational teacher. — 00:00:00
• ★★ Working back from his gravestone answer while unsure about medicine, Ali asked whether he cared about practising medicine or teaching it, and saw he had most fun teaching other medical students, so he set out to teach more. — 00:00:00

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• retold · Ali asks himself what he wants written on his gravestone and lands on good father, good husband and inspirational teacher — Trying to work out what to do with his life, Ali asked himself what he wants written on his gravestone and quickly landed on some combination of good father, good husband and inspirational teacher. (00:00:00)

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Central: gravestone technique

Also centred on gravestone technique: How To Figure Out What You Want To Do With Your Life

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