221: Making Good Book Club #27 Feel Good Productivity by Ali Abdaal
So, I have been very excited to share this book with you all and Charelle for a long time because I have been following Ali and his YouTube journey for quite a bit. Ali Abdaal is an ex-doctor turned productivity wizard and highly followed person on YouTube. He shares a lot of videos about productivity, time management, evidence-based strategies, and tools to help us be more productive. He has been publishing amazing content on YouTube for the past 7 years. I am a big fan and I cannot tell you how much I have learned from his channel.
When I heard Ali had a book coming out I was immediately sold. I purchased a book, got on the waitlist, and, (with Charelle’s agreement of course), we decided to cover his book on the podcast. So this is that episode! We finally got our hands and eyeballs on our copies of Feel Good Productivity, and I had so much fun dissecting this book with Charelle.
As Cherelle would say, Feel Good Productivity is very “bitty.” In other words, it is jam-packed with lots of bits of extremely valuable info, way more than we could ever cover in one episode. His recommendations, ideas, and experiments you can try are evidence-based and science-backed, which I very much appreciate. Ali also asks a lot of valuable questions in the book, which are themselves very worth keeping in your back pocket.
I think this book is well worth a read, but here we’re going to talk about some of our key takeaways. I think Charelle and I did a good job of pulling out highlights that will hopefully inspire you in your day-to-day, but again I would absolutely recommend giving the whole book a read, it is fantastic.
In this book club episode, we talk about:
The importance of play
Why it’s important to reframe failure
The power of owning your mindset
The ‘shoshin’ effect and the value of the beginner’s mind
Why it’s important to over-communicate vs. under-communicate
How to reframe procrastination to prevent negative self talk
And more
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THIS MONTH: Feel Good Productivity by Ali Abdaal
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