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How To Figure Out What You Want To Do With Your Life

Written By Ali Abdaal on Wednesday, May 26, 2021 | 09:39 AM

 
To improve your thinking and learning skills, visit https://brilliant.org/ali and sign up for free. The first 200 people will get 20% off the annual Premium subscription :) In this video I go over three exercise that have helped me figure out what I want to do with my life and plan out my future. 00:00 Intro 00:30 The Gravestone Technique 03:15 The Odyssey Plan 06:00 The Ideal Ordinary Week Check out @UnJadedJade 's video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM2WjzaErUs&t=221s Get the book "How Will You Measure Your Life": https://geni.us/ibrS0bT Check out Strategy Sprints: https://www.strategysprints.com/ MY FREE ONLINE COURSES: ๐Ÿš€ Productivity Masterclass - Principles and Tools to Boost Your Productivity - https://go.aliabdaal.com/course/productivity ๐ŸŽฌ Video Editing with Final Cut Pro X - From Beginner to YouTuber - https://go.aliabdaal.com/course/video-editing ๐ŸŽ“ How to Study for Exams - An Evidence-Based Masterclass - https://go.aliabdaal.com/course/studying PART-TIME YOUTUBER ACADEMY: ๐Ÿฟ My 6-week live online course - https://academy.aliabdaal.com MY FAVOURITE GEAR: ๐ŸŽฅ My YouTube Camera Gear - https://kit.co/AliAbdaal โŒจ๏ธ My Keyboard - Wireless Coral mechanical keyboard (Cherry Blue) - https://go.aliabdaal.com/keyboard ๐Ÿ“ My favourite iPad Screen Protector - Paperlike - https://go.aliabdaal.com/paperlike ๐ŸŽ’ My Desk Accessories + Todo List - Ugmonk - https://go.aliabdaal.com/ugmonk MY FAVOURITE SOFTWARE: โœ๏ธ The best summaries of books (Shortform) - https://go.aliabdaal.com/shortform ๐Ÿ“š How I remember what I read (Readwise) - https://go.aliabdaal.com/readwise ๐ŸŽต Where I get my Music (amazing for YouTubers) - https://go.aliabdaal.com/epidemicsound ๐ŸŽ™ My weekly podcast - https://www.notoverthinking.com My brother and I host a weekly podcast where we discuss happiness, creativity and the human condition. You can find it by searching โ€œNot Overthinkingโ€ on any podcast app (eg: Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts etc). BE MY FRIEND: ๐Ÿ’Œ Sign up to my weekly email newsletter - https://aliabdaal.com/friendzone/ ๐ŸŒ My website / blog - https://www.aliabdaal.com ๐Ÿ“ธ Instagram - https://instagram.com/aliabdaal ๐Ÿฆ Twitter - https://twitter.com/aliabdaal ๐ŸŽฎ Twitch - https://twitch.tv/aliabdaal WHO AM I: I'm Ali, a junior doctor working in Cambridge, UK. I make videos about medicine, technology, productivity and lifestyle design. I also have a weekly podcast with my brother (https://www.notoverthinking.com), and I write a weekly email newsletter that contains some quick thoughts + links to interesting things (https://email.aliabdaal.com). ๐ŸŒ My website / blog - https://www.aliabdaal.com GET IN TOUCH: If youโ€™d like to talk, Iโ€™d love to hear from you. Tweeting @aliabdaal directly will be the quickest way to get a response, but if your question is very long, feel free to email me at [email protected]. I try my best to reply to things but there sadly aren't enough hours in the day to respond to everyone ๐Ÿ˜ญ PS: Some of the links in this description are affiliate links that I get a kickback from ๐Ÿ˜œ PS: I donate 10% of my income to charity every year. Would you like to join me? Learn more about the 10% Pledge: https://aliabdaal.com/giving-what-we-can/