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Deep Dive with Ali Abdaal

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Success Requires Strategic Imbalance

Success often requires a period of grind and hustle, but it's essential to recognize when this period is no longer serving you. Many successful people have gone through this phase, and those who are happy are the ones who understand when to transition out of it. Starting a business or a side hustle demands a significant amount of hard work and may lead to an imbalanced life, but it's a necessary phase for achieving financial independence. However, the key is to evolve from a period of imbalance to a phase of strategic imbalance, where the hard work is channeled strategically.

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And that episode got
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like 1.5 million views after my checked and now Dan Priestley has become a friend and a mentor and he helps us out when we're struggling with business stuff and we're top on a call with him and he's like done coaching sessions for our team and everyone loves him. He's a great guy and he'd become a friend through the podcast. Then we did an episode two with him and that also got like over a million views because people seem to love Daniel Priestley. That was amazing. It was so good meeting Will McCaskill, the philosopher, philosophy professor at Oxford, who wrote the book, What We Ode the Future. I heard of Will and knew of him on the grapevine for years and then he came and did the podcast and we had like a four hour long conversation about like philosophy and altruism and philanthropy and all that kind of stuff. And now he's become a friend as well and that's just really cool. And so many of those a bunch of other people that have interviewed on the podcast who have taught me a lot of lessons. One of the key lessons that I've really learned from
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is that every successful person, seemingly, has a period of grind and a period of hustle. But then the ones who are happy are the ones who recognize when that period of grind or hustle is no longer serving them. Like to start a business, you kind of have to have that period of grind and hustle. It's very hard to start a business while you have a full time job. If you also wanted to be successful and if you also want to have a really good work life balance, it's a really, really hard to do that. I don't know many people who've been able to do that. But if you're serious about starting a business or a side hustle or becoming financially independent or any of that kind of stuff, it does take a period. A period of hard work where your life might be imbalanced. But what are these people, like, you know, now advises sort of it's, it's like strategic imbalance.

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