How to Make Productivity More Fun

My main philosophy for being more productive is simply to have fun, even when you're doing the smaller boring tasks. Researcher Yu-kai Chou has figured out how to do this using the addictive frameworks games use to draw players in to hours of play.

He explains all the strategies in his book 'Actionable Gamification', which I break down in this video.

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[SimingLan]

How to make boring things fun:

1. Finding meaning in what you do
2. Translate your work into accomplishments
3. Find creative ways to go about it
4. Shorten the feedback loops
5. Take ownership of your outcome, process and beliefs (more responsibilities; do it with others)
6. scarcity (make what you do about getting that little 'something' you really want)
7. unpredictability and curiosity
8. use fear of loss to achieve goals

[elaii]

Don't be a "Giant in thought, dwarf in action."
This quote always pulls me back to reality when I plan too big with little to no action.

[ImpactPlaysMC]

As a developer, one of the things that helps make programming personal projects a lot more fun is heavily customizing my dev environment! It makes it so much more exciting to sit down and make something

[anjalimishra]

The video was great but what made is more interesting to watch was the editing. Absolutely loved it❣

[rafiulalam]

1. Progress bar
2. Finding solutions to problem
3. Quick feedback
4. Sense of ownership
5. Social analysis

[Ajaxxx]

I completely agree with Ali's view that the main motivator behind doing something is finding the "epic" meaning or purpose in your life. I used this in my 10th grade and my grades sky-rocketed while I was genuinely enjoying the process. I used to envision myself as a highly successful person ( like Elon Musk or Newton) and my brain would automatically switch to "Deep-work" mode while naturally incorporating the other elements of gamification such as creativity, ownership etc

[yahayaoyinkansola]

Loved the editing Ali, really made watching the video fun. Gamifying tasks really seems to help out a lot, gonna start trying it, thanks a lot for the tips!

[malugarbo]

The production of this video is insane, genuily makes me wanna be better as a person. Congrats to Ali and the editor ❤🎉

[aayush_dutt]

Props to the editor, this is really slick!

[lavishresale]

Hey Ali, another great video with so much value per minuet, I really noticed the production quality increase in this one and loved it 👍🏽

[rayfinkle]

Focusmate is exactly what I need. Thanks for that recommendation, I'm gonna try it this week!

[amitabhkmitra]

The motion graphics are so good, I couldn't resist from commenting, the way improving is inclined like a slope in a graph and the character spacing decreasing when Ali say shorten the feedback loop! ✨

[MDobri-syce]

I find using the self-reward system works often. For example, every week, I have target goals for the amount of homework modules, and other tasks. I want done every week.Like, last week, I said, to myself, if I finish editing this psychology assignment today than Saturday, I will give myself the day off from responsibilities.

[mohammedsaad]

The Editing and video quality has increased a lot from the previous ones . Nice video, genuienly very helpful....

[mohammadmusharraf]

the editing of this video is the best I've seen so far on this channel

[khalilahd.]

I’m currently on a language learning journey (I’m trying to learn Japanese) and I’m not going to lie, it’s tough and not always fun so I’m really interested in using the tips from this book. I definitely have the “wider purpose” part so I’ll start with level two/ accomplishment. Thanks Ali! 🙏🏽

[gilbertwalker]

Lucid thoughts and the most engaging conversational tone. Nicely done.

[ImranNayeem]

Love the animations and graphics in your latest videos! Great content as usual!

[knotssoperfect]

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[dharanyarao]

Ali, day by day, your editing skills are getting awesome