My 3 pieces of advice for new content creators

2026-10-12 · Short · Ali · recording, 1:32 · watch on YouTube

Topic: YouTube, writing online and creators · mode: List of tips or lessons · tags: His medical past

Ali's three pieces of advice for new content creators: attach a business to your content from day one so the content generates its leads, enjoy the process so you play the long game, and train the muscle of underthinking.

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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 — Three pieces of advice for new content creators

• ★★★ Ali's first advice to new content creators: attach a monetisation vehicle to your content from day one, a business selling a valuable service or product with the content as its lead generation driver, so the content is sustainable. — 00:00:00
• ★★ When Ali started his YouTube channel he already had a courses business teaching kids how to get into medical school; with only 10 to 30 views a video, a small share still converted into sales, so he was almost making money from day one. — 00:00:00 · 6med
• ★★★ Ali's second advice to new creators: focus on enjoying the process, because the only way to succeed in content is to keep going long enough, most people quit before they see success, and enjoyment is the surest way to play the long game. — 00:00:29

• ★★★ Ali's third advice to new creators: train the muscle of underthinking, doing things without thinking too hard about them, a real asset when you are just getting started. — 00:00:29

  “train the muscle of underthinking”

• ★★ Ali recently met someone starting a business who, with about three followers, had spent about six months agonising over her very first Instagram post, as if it would make or break her career. — 00:00:58 · Instagram

• ★★ One Instagram post does not make or break a career, Ali says: anyone big on Instagram has thousands or tens of thousands of posts, most of which you never see because of the algorithm. — 00:00:58 · Instagram

Threads in this video

• looked back · SixMed, Ali's medical school admissions courses (2012) — When Ali started his YouTube channel he already had a courses business teaching kids how to get into medical school; with only 10 to 30 views a video, a small share still converted into sales, so he was almost making money from day one. (00:00:00)
• refine · How do you get past perfectionism and the fear of starting? — Ali's third advice to new creators: train the muscle of underthinking, doing things without thinking too hard about them, a real asset when you are just getting started. (00:00:29)

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6med · Instagram · lead generation

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