How to make time for everything

2025-11-14 · Short · Ali · recording, 0:03 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Productivity and time · mode: Explanation and tutorial · tags: His own numbers, His medical past

A three-second Short whose description retells how Ali, working full-time as a doctor, made 31 hours a week of free time with his 168-hour spreadsheet: audit where the week goes, sacrifice TV, cooking and cleaning, and double-dip dead time such as his commute.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — How Ali made time for everything as a doctor

In the description and comments

★★ Ali says an average person's week already uses most of its 168 hours: about 56 hours of sleep, 52 of work with commute and prep, 12 to 15 on food, 12 on chores and 30 on TV and social media. — video description
★★★ Most productivity advice fails, Ali says, because it assumes you can cheat maths: you cannot, so to make time you have to sacrifice. — video description
★★ As a doctor building his business, Ali lived off takeaway meals only, skipped breakfast entirely for years and never set foot in a grocery store, cutting his food time to two or three hours a week; he would not recommend it to everyone. — video description
★★ As a doctor, Ali outsourced cleaning, having his flat cleaned every other week, which he says saved roughly another 10 hours a week. — video description
★★ As a doctor, Ali listened to business podcasts at 2x speed on his commute and scripted YouTube videos in hospital lunch breaks; this added 10+ productive hours a week and left him 31 hours a week of free time. — video description
★★ As a doctor building his business, Ali spent zero time watching TV, the only exception being social watching with friends, which he says freed up 15 hours a week. — video description

Mentioned

Only in the description or credits: social media · speed listening · time stacking

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