Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You
For this to work as an experiment, it’s important that your change is localised. If you dramatically transform every sphere of your life, you won’t know what’s driving any changes in your mood and sense of alignment.
Ali Abdaal • Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You
being able to celebrate people’s wins matters. And the best way to do so is to adopt an active-constructive approach to all good news.
Ali Abdaal • Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You
play holds the key to true productivity, partly because it provides a sense of psychological relief.
Ali Abdaal • Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You
As the philosopher Seneca said, Qui docet discit – ‘He who teaches learns’.
Ali Abdaal • Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You
the first way to harness the potential of play is to integrate adventure into our lives.
Ali Abdaal • Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You
Every time you’re presented with a request for a few weeks’ time, think: ‘Would I be excited about this commitment if it was happening tomorrow? Or am I only thinking about saying “yes” to it because it’s easier to make it a problem for my future self?’
Ali Abdaal • Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You
Second, creative activities play to our feelings of autonomy.
Ali Abdaal • Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You
Did success really require suffering? What was ‘success’ anyway?
Ali Abdaal • Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You
‘If we could just frame our learning process so that we weren’t so concerned with failure, how much more could we learn? How much more could we succeed?’