How to Make Difficult Decisions (without overthinking)

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To help you get started with braincare, go to https://www.yourheights.com/pages/ali-abdaal/?discount_code=ALI15 at checkout to get your exclusive discount, and start taking care of your brain and body today. Every day we make choices that have the potential to change the course of our lives. But, we almost never stop and think about how to get better at making these choices. Luckily, that’s what we’re talking about in this video, enjoy x 🍿WATCH NEXT (all great choices lol) 10 Rules I Follow Every Day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGdn6FTIF5I&t=145s Why I Chose to Quit Medicine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZOVLrLXKCE 21 Life Lessons from 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Dvkq5yAvcA&t=2s I Asked 15 Experts for Life Advice. Here's What I Learned: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNMBZHoNBWg&t=65s How I Manage My Time (10 Tips): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iONDebHX9qk&t=9s 00:00 Intro 01:00 I in one year's time, what would I regret not having started today? 02:26 What would my mental board of advisors say? 04:09 What is the risk of doing nothing? 04:50 What core value am I optimising for? 05:19 When I'm on my deathbed, what will I regret having or not having done? 06:55 How certain am I about decision and how certain do I need to be? 07:46 How might I treat this like an experiment? 09:55 Do I want to be the sort of person who does X? 11:19 Will this energise me or will it drain me? 12:36 The Quitting Framework 13:40 Tim Ferriss' Fear Setting Exercise 💌 Sign up to my weekly email newsletter - https://go.aliabdaal.com/subscribe-sundaysnippets MY FREE ONLINE COURSES: 🚀 Productivity Masterclass - Principles and Tools to Boost Your Productivity - https://go.aliabdaal.com/course/productivity 🎓 How to Study for Exams - An Evidence-Based Masterclass - https://go.aliabdaal.com/course/studying 🎬 YouTube for Beginners - Everything You Need To Know To Start - https://go.aliabdaal.com/course/YouTube-for-Beginners MY CREATOR COURSES 🎬 Check out my free 7 day email course on how to become a part-time YouTuber: https://aliabdaal.com/part-time-youtuber-crash-course/ 🏆 Creatorpreneur - My flagship course for scaling up your creative side-hustle → https://creatorpreneur.academy/course 🗣 Camera Confidence - My self-paced course on how to improve your creativity, career, or communication skills → https://cameraconfidence.aliabdaal.com/ MY FAVOURITE GEAR 🎥 My YouTube Camera Gear - https://kit.co/AliAbdaal ⌨️ My Keyboard - Wireless Coral mechanical keyboard (Cherry Blue) -https://go.aliabdaal.com/keyboard 📝 My favourite iPad Screen Protector - Paperlike - https://go.aliabdaal.com/paperlike 🎒 My Desk Accessories + Todo List - Ugmonk - https://go.aliabdaal.com/ugmonk 🎙 Check out my weekly podcast, Deep Dive - https://www.youtube.com/c/DeepDivewithAliAbdaal/ - It's also available on all podcast platforms, including Spotify, Apple Podcasts etc. MY FAVOURITE TOOLS 🚀 VidIQ - How I optimise my YouTube videos - https://go.aliabdaal.com/vidiq ✍️ Shortform - The BEST summaries of books - https://go.aliabdaal.com/shortform 📚 Readwise - How I remember what I read - https://go.aliabdaal.com/readwise 🎵 Epidemic Sound - Where I get my music (amazing for YouTubers) - https://go.aliabdaal.com/epidemicsound MY KEY LINKS 🌍 My website / blog - https://www.aliabdaal.com/ 🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/aliabdaal 📸 Instagram - https://instagram.com/aliabdaal WHO AM I: I’m Ali, a YouTuber, podcaster, soon-to-be author and ex-Doctor working in London, UK. I make videos that explore the strategies and tools that help us live happier, healthier and more productive lives. I also have a weekly podcast called Deep Dive (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChfo46ZNOV-vtehDc25A1Ug), and I write a weekly email newsletter that contains some quick thoughts + links to interesting things (https://go.aliabdaal.com/subscribe-sundaysnippets). PS: Some of the links in this description are affiliate links that I get a kickback from 😜 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/