How To Set Better Goals - Oliver Burkeman x Ali Abdaal

Hear what Ali and Oliver have to say about dealing with goals that are inside vs outside of our control - Clip taken from Season 2 Episode 2 of Deep Dive.

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[eonryan]

3:57 - Ali Abdaal implicit goal setting system

4:54 - lower quality expectations for processes/systems

6:16 - writers who makes writing into a moderately important part of their life did lots more than people who made it very important

7:14 - ability to keep important things relatively small in your life

[Fatima_]

Thanks Ali for uploading such quality stuff. You're helping so many people without realizing the impact you're making. Keep it up

[MichaelOdendaal]

Really appreciate these snippets from the larger interviews.

[BrendanEvan]

1. Lower the bar for quality as low as possible
2. Enforced lowballing

-noted

[razabadass]

Thank for the various skillshare, YouTube and general teaching related efforts! Raza :)

[zhvanrekani]

Thank you for the important explanation👍

[doctortosin]

Lol I’ve never been this early for a video… great topic, I personally I love goal setting esp by using SMART goals.

[Overachiever]

6/10 Not the best advice for this

0:50 The problem
1:20 Explaining the situation
2:15 Real advice
3:25 Ali's hardships
3:55 Ali's process steps of completion

5:15 Oliver's advice and information from the books he's read #2

[dianafarhat]

Did you do the eye surgery? Make a video about the experience, if yes. Great video btw!

[Ari_diwan]

Quantity based goals = specific, within control

[marionannmacredie]

I’m sO glad you two got together and am hoping it was due to my suggestion 😁😁😁 is the total interview out yet??? 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

[simonkine]

Second here and am glad and humbled to have you Ali bringing us the master minds here in longer interviews, am learning a lot and incorporating in my own content and hopefully everybody else here is.
Thanks Ali🤗

[DrBrunoRecipes]

Wonderful job👌🏻 Greetings from Scotland 😊 Have a wonderful day everyone 🌻

[TheMrkarurosu]

anyone who could give me the name of the book mentioned ? writer journey sth

[DemetriPanici]

It's so weird to see Ali without glasses

[ZakwanPatel]

To be honest this topic goes conclusion less all the time.
It's depends on situation.