Why Studying Hard Was Making Me Fail

2025-08-30 · Short · Ali · recording, 0:51 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Productivity and time · mode: Personal story · tags: His medical past, Aimed at students

In a Short, Ali tells how inefficient studying in his first year of medical school led him to efficient study and productivity techniques that freed time for friends and a business, and how he became a productivity expert by accident.

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

00:00:00 — From inefficient first-year studying to productivity techniques that freed his time

• ★★ In his first year of medical school Ali wasted a lot of time studying inefficiently, working hard just to get through the exams, and did not do particularly well; that summer he found effective study techniques that freed up much more of his time. — 00:00:00
• ★★ Ali found that the more he applied productivity techniques such as time blocking and the Pomodoro method, the more free time he had for his friends and for building a business alongside medical school. — 00:00:29 · time-blocking, Pomodoro technique
• ★ Ali says his productivity began by accident, as a way of creating more time in his day, and he does not know how he became a productivity expert. — 00:00:29

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• retold · Ali studies inefficiently in his first year of medical school, then finds efficient study techniques that free up his time — In his first year of medical school Ali wasted a lot of time studying inefficiently, working hard just to get through the exams, and did not do particularly well; that summer he found effective study techniques that freed up much more of his time. (00:00:00)

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Pomodoro technique · time-blocking

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