Life Advice Q&A with my Brother

In this video, my brother Taimur and I answer various life advice-themed questions that our audience sent in via Instagram. As 24- and 25-year olds we do our best to answer life's most philosophical questions, like how to combat procrastination, how to study more efficiently, how to juggle multiple audiobooks and much more. Enjoy!

🎙Our weekly podcast - https://www.notoverthinking.com

🏙 Taimur's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/refrigerated/
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00:57 - How to deal with procrastination?
0:01:49 - How do I motivate myself to study more?
0:02:47 - How do you pull yourself up after a failure?
0:04:31 - Any advice on starting an online business?
0:06:07 - How do you balance reading multiple books and audiobooks?
0:08:00 - How has reading books helped you over the years?
0:09:10 - How can I make money during school / university?
0:10:49 - What’s been the single most worthwhile investment for your personal development?
0:12:10 - Have you ever struggled with mental health? If so, how did you cope?
0:13:17 - What’s the most valuable thing you’ve learned in your life so far?
0:15:02 - What are your thoughts on Finasteride for hair loss?
0:15:51 - Does hard work always lead to success?
0:16:08 - If you had a spare £1,000 floating around, what would you do with it together?
0:16:58 - Any tips for studying data science?
0:20:26 - How do you deal with imposter syndrome?
0:21:42 - Favourite piece of tech released in 2019?

LINKS TO STUFF MENTIONED
- Our podcast episode: Why do we struggle with motivation? - https://www.notoverthinking.com/episodes/010-why-do-we-struggle-with-motivation
- Our podcast episode: Why do we struggle with consistency? - https://www.notoverthinking.com/episodes/004-why-do-we-struggle-with-consistency
- Our podcast episode: How can we get into the habit of reading? - https://www.notoverthinking.com/episodes/011-how-can-we-get-into-the-habit-of-reading

- Podcast - Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend - https://www.earwolf.com/show/conan-obrien/
- Book - The 4-Hour Work Week (Tim Ferriss) - https://geni.us/cucm
- Book - Show Your Work (Austin Kleon) - https://geni.us/RAkz8J5
- Book - Anything You Want (Derek Sivers) - https://geni.us/AnythingYouWant
- Book - The Courage to be Disliked - https://geni.us/zrVq

👩🏼‍💻 Taimur's startup: https://causal.app
✍️ Taimur's blog: https://taimur.me

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🎙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 “Not Overthinking” on any podcast app (eg: Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts etc).

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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://aliabdaal.com/friendzone).

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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@aliabdaal.com. I try my best to reply to things but there sadly aren't enough hours in the day to respond to everyone 😭

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