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Deep Dive with Ali Abdaal · January 3, 2024 · 49m

How To Make 2024 Your Most Productive Year Yet

Ali shares his framework for annual planning based on his book Feel-Good Productivity. Argues that productivity should start with feeling good, not with discipline and willpower.

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Abdaal shares how hitting his revenue and subscriber goals produced brief satisfaction followed by emptiness. The hedonic treadmill applies to achievement: each milestone feels great briefly, then becomes the new normal.

Highlights

Feel-good productivity inverts the traditional discipline model: positive emotion drives output, not the reverse
Abdaal argues that the traditional productivity model (discipline leads to output leads to satisfaction) is backwards. Positive emotion leads to energy leads to output. Start with what feels good.
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