Book 2, Post 1

A Book to Look Forward To

For my Book 2 choice, I chose to read Feel Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You by Ali Abdaal. I made this decision because of two factors: that it applied to my current situation and that I used to watch Ali Abdaal's videos on YouTube. This is a book that I am definitely looking forward to and I cannot wait to update all of you on what I learn and how I feel about it as I start reading it!

I first found Abdaal's channel on YouTube a few years back when he had around 100k subscribers (now he has a whopping 5.29M subscribers!) During that time, I was very interested in how to improve my studying skills and productivity. With Abdaal's high quality videos and great story-telling skills, I felt very immersed in his videos and learned a lot of skills of time management and note taking that I still hold on to, till this day.

Through his book, I hope to learn more skills in productivity that will apply towards my current situation. I feel really burned out after completing midterms and overwhelmed from other external factors of life. This week as well as the weeks leading after spring break, I hope to "get back on the grind" and catch up with my academic responsibilities. To be honest, I have lost the motivation that I had going into the semester and I hope to gain a new perspective and skills from this book to help me with this obstacle.