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In Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You, a former doctor turned YouTuber, podcaster, and entrepreneur Dr. Ali Abdaal argues that the key to productivity isn’t discipline but joy. He provides a framework and various experiments for making projects more enjoyable so that productivity takes care of itself.

Three Parts of the Book

  • Part 1 explains how to use the science of feel-good productivity to energise yourself.

The Three Energizers: Play, Power and People

  • Part 2:  Examines how feel-good productivity can help us overcome procrastination.

The Three Blockers: Uncertainty, Fear and Inertia

  • Part 3: How feel-good productivity can sustain us in the long term.

The Three types of burnout: Overexertion burnout, depletion burnout and misalignment burnout

The Three Sustainers: Conserve, Recharge and Align

Keep showing up until they call you chairman. Until they call you a genius. Until they call you the greatest of all time. – Jay-Z

One of my favourite things to watch is acceptance speeches of award ceremonies. I find them very inspiring, and I often tear up listening to some of these speeches, especially in real-time. The award winners are usually overjoyed, and they mostly talk about how hard it took to get to the award moment.

One of my highlights of the 2024 Grammy Music Award was the inspiring acceptance speech of rapper Jay-Z. He was honoured with the Dr. Dre Global Impact Award, inaugurated at the 2023 award. Jay-Z is one of my favourite people in the world, as we were both born on December 4.  Jay ended his speech with the following profound words: