How Ali Abdaal Made 2 Million Dollars In One Week

The daily highlight is a technique. Basically you ask yourself, what is the most important thing I need to do today? And that's it. It's one of the, by far, the most simple productivity tips you could possibly have, but it's so needle-moving because so few of us actually focus down on what is the most important thing?

The small stuff does build up, and it's important to send that email, send the follow-up, all that crap. But, actually, the thing that's really going to get you to where you want to be is generally making big progress on that one big thing.

Procrastination is generally a problem with getting started with doing the thing. Because, usually, once you've got started, you have momentum ... It becomes a lot easier to sustain the thing once you've got started.

My north star is when I'm dead and people are speaking at my funeral, I just want them to say a) I was a nice dude but b) that my stuff helped them in some way ... My whole north star is how do I continue being able to learn synthesize and teach forever?

Once you're playing your infinite game, which is what I'm playing right now, the only objective that makes sense is to be able to continue playing the game.

Just speaking to a camera on my own, like, it's kind of depressing. But, hey, you know, that's the price to get the message out there. And I do enjoy other aspects of the process.