Episodes

  • Student wellbeing and the 2021 summer exams fiasco

    Student wellbeing and the 2021 summer exams fiasco
    Apr 30 2021
    We discuss how students can keep their focus, standing up for them and how could this have been handled better by all the parties involved.
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    17 mins
  • CAIE June 2020 Recommendations for A Level Students

    CAIE June 2020 Recommendations for A Level Students
    Apr 24 2020
    CAIE June 2020 Recommendations for A Level Students
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    9 mins
  • Life & work during quarantine times, with Asad Hashamali

    Life & work during quarantine times, with Asad Hashamali
    Apr 19 2020

    I sit down with Asad Hashamali, COO, Backspace, and regular of my podcasts. We discuss some smart and efficient changes to his daily routines, and how they, at backspace, have been keeping a certain work-from-home culture running with daily checkins, flexible hours, venting and mentoring times one-on-one. Linking backspaces work from home manual [here]

    The apps we discuss on the show:
    Discord for voice chat channels and text channels.
    Slack for work chat.
    Basecamp for project management.
    Notion for organising your life and work.

    Podcasters and bloggers to subscribe to:
    Tim Ferris, James Altucher, Dr. Peter Attia, Dr. Ali Abdaal, Peter McKinnon, Matti Haapoja, Matt D’Avella.

    Vicent’s music I talk about in the episode (the French guy): Loose Yourself by Vicent Vinel
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    52 mins
  • Passion, drive and ikigai

    Passion, drive and ikigai
    Feb 18 2020
    I talk to Yousuf about what drives me, what I am passionate about and till where will I go before I rest.
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    42 mins
  • Purpose, work, money and entrepreneurship.

    Purpose, work, money and entrepreneurship.
    Jan 24 2020
    A conversation with Asad Hashamali on life's purpose, the work we do, what money means to me and the pressing need for entrepreneurship.
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    31 mins
  • Ali, Nausher and Alt Academy

    Ali, Nausher and Alt Academy
    Nov 14 2019
    I sit down with Ali Anwerzada and Nausher Alam in discussing the launch of Alt Academy.
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    33 mins
  • Asad talks to Bilal about his life, work, education and growing up

    Asad talks to Bilal about his life, work, education and growing up
    Aug 18 2019
    From Behind the Grind: Bilal is someone who I met at the age of 19 and since then have been very close to. He's a mentor of mine doing great things in the education space for Pakistan. Listen on to learn about his life and some lessons he's learnt along the way. Asad's Channel [Behind the Grind]: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfG_N864Q4O7Syo7C4hBBhA Video: https://youtu.be/0U5X3iOwWUo
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    1 hr and 11 mins
  • Enthusiasm, Connection & Magic

    Enthusiasm, Connection & Magic
    Aug 3 2019
    [00:00:00] Hey, guys. Hi. I would take a few minutes out to talk to you about somebody I was listening to and reading about the last week and some fascinating insights about life that he's reiterated for me. And the person's name is Adam Robinson. Does a lot of things. You can look him up. I heard him on a Tim Ferriss podcast. I think this was part customer 210. The show was brilliant. If you got a chance, please headed out. It's a two hour, one and a half hour episode called The Very Best Version of You. Now, [00:00:30] some of the things one of the questions posed to the two item was that if you give three pieces of advice to somebody, what would they be?[00:00:40] And.[00:00:42] It he articulated what was needed to say. He said very beautifully. Like, I it just it just made me feel alive. I was absolutely decimating everything he was saying. The first one he said was he talked about enthusiasm. And he said that I understand that life is [00:01:00] happening for you. This life exists for you. It's not happening to you. So our disease is happening to you the whole life around you. As for you, what you need to understand is that every single thing in life that you do, you have to do it with enthusiasm. You have to want to do that. And if you don't feel like it, you got to create that enthusiasm. If you want success in it, you will never, ever get success in life if you don't put enthusiasm behind it. And it spoke to me so directly because that's how my life is either. [00:01:30] And this is something else. Somebody else said on another day for this podcast. His name was dance. Servers are on servers. I'm sorry. I will link the guys in the podcast later. He said that in life, when you are given a decision to make about something, you should do something or not. In my head, that's what I do. I think about it. If that idea is a hell, yes, I do it. If it's not, I'm not going to do it. And that's a beautiful word of simplifying life. [00:02:00][00:02:00] You don't have to do everything unless, of course, it's a hell. Yes. And for the hell, yes. Get the enthusiasm going for now. If you guys are very about studying exams and all of that stuff. And that's because my audience is mainly students, I understand that the studying part might not be a hell. Yes. But then think about your goals, your careers. Are they? Hell yes, if they're not. You've got to change them if they are. Maybe you're doing that for families or the family becomes a hell. Yes. So if the hell yes. And you got to give it that enthusiasm. Because the other thing is the reason is because you don't [00:02:30] live alone. I mean, you're not sitting behind a desk all day, 10 hours a day. It is not that kind of job unless it goes you want to be a freelancer or even that you have to go meet people. And the reason I say enthusiasm is because people will feel your enthusiasm. People feed off that the energy you give to them to transfer to them. That'll come out into in the enthusiasm. So the first thing I'll tell my kids is and this is something I live by. Absolutely. And at times I would be honored to be doing something that was giving me enthusiasm or excitement or. Hell, yes. And [00:03:00] I was like, you know what? I'll only do something if it's a hell.[00:03:02] Yes, I am. I'm too or not. I'm almost 40. I got a few years left. I want to only do things that are hell. Yes. And I'll tell you this. Also, make your life more about the hell yes moments and do whatever you need to do with enthusiasm. You meet people, they feed off the enthusiasm that you will have and it will be contagious. People will have much more respect for you. You live a much better impression on them. They will want to see you again. So somebody else said this and I can't [00:03:30] I don't remember the name again, reiterating some smart person. These are all things that somebody else has said. I'm just curating the content for you guys out there. One of the persons said that, you know, that the effect you have on people is the most important or the strongest or the most valuable currency you have. So if you want to have that leverage or that advantage, leverage sometimes is not a positive word. But if you want to have an advantage in relationship, you've got to treat that relationship or any encounter [00:04:00] with that in full enthusiasm. And people would feed off that and they will respect it and they will want it and they will want to meet you again and again and give you that respect. That's one. The second thing that was Adam had shared was that make connections you can use.[00:04:17] Here's a guy who's lived life alone. He's a very smart guy who dental who tended to live his life as a teacher and then a business man and this and that in a very close circle. He didn't want to meet people, but the number of people doesn't matter. But as long as you understand [00:04:30] that in your life, you need to connect with people. Living is connections with people. You can't live ...
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    11 mins