Feel-Good Productivity - How to Do More of What Matters to You - Ali Abdaal
Summary
- A well researched productivity book that focuses a bit less on the nuts and bolts and more on the motivation aspect of it. The idea that you work better if you are happy is probaby accurate!
How I discovered it
- I have followed Ali Abdaals Youtube channel for a while and its always interesting. Also, he is a user of Zettelkasten Method
How the book changed me
- It has made me realize the ultimate productivity hack: being happy and enjoying your work, even as it goes through other practical ways to be productive.
Details
- An adventurous life is a happier life
- When we are stressed, we are less likely to be playful, and less likely to be creative or productive.
- Thinking negatively about failure leads to less attempts to try to overcome obstacles
- Athletic performance is improved by our belief about whether we are athletic or not
- Even small encouraging words are powerful
- Athletic performance improved by just telling yourself motivational sayings
- Extrinsic motivation vs Intrinsic motivation
- Do three random acts of kindness a day
- How to give negative feedback objectively
- Commanders intent - formulate, communicate, interpret and implement
- First principles - ask why five times
- Implementation intentions - how to create habits
- Tracking progress increases chances of achieving a goal
- Be distracted, but only temporarily
- Take substantial breaks to improve your productivity
- What is burnout?
- What will people say at your funeral
References
Quotes
- Everything can be taken from a man but one thing - the last of the human freedoms - to choose ones attitude in any given set of circumstances - Viktor Frankl
- A shared joy is a double joy - a shared sorrow is a half sorrow.