How to Beat Procrastination

Visit or text aliabdaal to 500-500 (USA) and start listening with a 30-day Audible trial and your first audiobook. Procrastinating is something that we all waste hours of our lives doing but how can we beat it? In this video, I break down the lessons I’ve learned from Steven Pressfield’s ’The War of Art’, a book that helped me overcome my procrastination habits by revealing a force that we all battle against that he calls ’Resistance’. 00:00 Intro 00:50 Knowing the enemy 03:15 Becoming a professional 05:55 Banishing our ego. Enjoy! 🎙 My weekly podcast - My brother and I host a weekly podcast where we discuss happiness, creativity and the human condition. You can find it by searching “Not Overthinking” on any podcast app (eg: Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts etc). BE MY FRIEND: 💌 Sign up to my weekly email newsletter - 🌍 My website / blog - 📸 Instagram - 🐦 Twitter - 🎮 Twitch - 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 (), and I write a weekly email newsletter that contains some quick thoughts links to interesting things (). 🌍 My website / blog - GET IN TOUCH: If you’d like to talk, I’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 hi@. I try my best to reply to things but there sadly aren’t enough hours in the day to respond to everyone 😭