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