Not Overthinking
The weekly podcast about happiness, creativity, and the human condition. It's us, Ali and Taimur Abdaal, occasionally joined by guests, talking about things to help us think, do, and be better.
Things like social interaction, lifestyle design, mental models... Things that are hard to examine, but important to explore. And hopefully, things that make for a fun and interesting chat every week.
We'd love for you to join us.
- Update frequency
- every 8 days
- Average duration
- 59 minutes
- Episodes
- 158
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
What psyops are out there?
Catching Up on the FTX Crypto Drama
Catching Up + Book Discussion - The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self
Book Discussion - The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self by Carl Trueman
Our Journey into Spirituality
Should we Platform Controversial Guests?
In this episode, we ramble a bit about what’s going on in our lives, Ali’s recent discovery of Alan Watts, and the idea around whether or not we should give a ‘platform’ to potentially-controversial…
Taimur got Married: Life Update
In this episode, we discuss Taimur’s biggest life update in a long time. We explore the feelings behind being engaged vs being married, try to work out whether an expensive wedding is worth it, and a…
When is enough, enough?
In this episode, we discuss the idea of ‘enough’ and where our drive for ‘numbers go up’ comes from. Enjoy xx
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Faffing, Hiring and General Life Updates
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The Case Against the Sexual Revolution
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How Our Lives Have Changed Through 3 Years of this Podcast
The Conversation that Changed Ali's Life (in theory)
In this episode, we discuss Ali's theoretically life-changing conversation with Will MacAskill, a professor of moral philosophy, about how to orient his career for impact rather than personal gain. T…
Should we share our personal life on the podcast?
In this first episode of the new season of the podcast, we discuss the extent to which we should / want to be open about our personal lives on the podcast. Taimur takes an unusual stance towards priv…
Mind Viruses
In this episode, Taimur presents his new theory of Mind Viruses. We discuss the aetiology, pathophysiology and implications thereof. Enjoy xx
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The Pathless Path
In this episode, we discuss our friend Paul Millerd’s new book The Pathless Path, which is all about reimagining our relationship with Work and Careers. Enjoy xx
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Pills & Paradigm Shifts
In this episode, we discuss the discourse around pills - Blue Pills, Red Pills, Black and White Pills - and share some of the ‘pills’ that we’ve taken in our own life that have led to paradigm shifts…
Exploring Taimur's New Relationship
In this episode, we discuss Taimur's new relationship! If you've got any questions about it, please do leave a comment down below and we'll maybe discuss them on a future episode. Enjoy xx
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Eye Surgery, Mind Chatter and Spirituality
In this episode, we do our usual life update (Taim’s just been to Turkey, Ali’s had Laser Eye Surgery), followed by a discussion of ego, which somehow segues into a conversation about mind chatter, a…
Thriving in Life
In this episode, we discuss the various ways in which both our lives seem to be going swimmingly at this point, and then meander around various business-type things around hiring, organisational desi…
Trying to Understand Crypto
In this episode we go over our histories with crypto, how we understand it, plans for the future and a short overview of NFTs.
Resources mentioned:
https://tim.blog/2021/03/08/vitalik-buterin-naval-rav…