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Your feelings don't control your actions

2026-01-20 · Short · Ali · recording, 0:56 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Mindset, motivation and happiness · mode: Explanation and tutorial

In a Short, Ali says thoughts, feelings and actions are like three separate sliders: you can not want to go to the gym, not feel like it, and still go.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — Thoughts, feelings and actions do not have to be correlated

  • ★★ Ali used to think that if he did not feel like doing something, such as going to the gym, he should not do it; building his own business, where he often had to do things he did not feel like, changed that. — 00:00:00

  • ★★ Ali calls thought, feeling and action three separate sliders that are unrelated to each other; the belief that your actions must line up with your thoughts and feelings is, he says, a myth. — 00:00:29

    “The thought, the feeling and the action are like three separate sliders”

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