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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.

Business Philosophy Society & Culture Creativity
Update frequency
every 8 days
Average duration
59 minutes
Episodes
158
Years Active
2019 - 2025
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Critiquing Ali's life choices

Critiquing Ali's life choices

In this episode we discuss angel investing and going back to school. Taimur analyzes my life choices and offers some insight on my future plans. Enjoy!

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00:47:15  |   Mon 25 Oct 2021
How can we find peace in our lives?

How can we find peace in our lives?

In this episode, Taimur shares his continuing woes about his calendar. We discuss the zen, peaceful nature of Benjamin Franklin’s calendar, and Ali attempts to coach Taimur through finding more peace…

00:39:33  |   Mon 18 Oct 2021
The Asymmetry of Cringe

The Asymmetry of Cringe

In this episode, we discuss the philosophy of “cringe”, and opine about the shrinking of the “cringe” overton window, especially amongst the youth of today. Enjoy!

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00:44:50  |   Mon 11 Oct 2021
Why are we running these businesses?

Why are we running these businesses?

We get back from a low optionality trip to Croatia and talk about how it went. This leads us to talk about why we’re doing what we’re doing with our lives.

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00:53:14  |   Mon 27 Sep 2021
How to Setup a New Social Life

How to Setup a New Social Life

In this episode, we discuss Ali’s new move to the big city of London, and Taimur shares some thoughts on how to setup the optimum social life. We also end up talking about the power of calendars and …

00:49:34  |   Mon 23 Aug 2021
What is the purpose of group holidays?

What is the purpose of group holidays?

For the first time in the history of the podcast we have a six people on this episode - a new record for Not Overthinking. Given that we're on a group holiday in the Cotswolds, we discuss the purpose…

00:59:43  |   Wed 18 Aug 2021
Do we have a specific personality type?

Do we have a specific personality type?

After discussing why we've become consistently inconsistent in publishing episodes (sorry, not sorry), we spend the rest of this episode discussing the Enneagram - a model of the human psyche made up…

00:42:42  |   Sun 08 Aug 2021
Why is agency a precious resource?

Why is agency a precious resource?

We're back into our weekly schedule and in this episode, after diving into why Taimur has signed up to do a triathlon and why Ali suddenly wants a dog, we discuss thoughts on autonomy sparked by an i…

00:53:43  |   Mon 12 Jul 2021
Why are childhood memories so varied?

Why are childhood memories so varied?

In this episode of the podcast, after Ali explains the revelations he’s had about his business, we take a trip down memory lane. Following a family trip to the area where we grew up, we reflect on ou…

00:48:31  |   Mon 05 Jul 2021
What do debates on Twitter reveal about identity?

What do debates on Twitter reveal about identity?

After a short sabbatical from recording, we’re back once again. In this episode, we catch up with what’s been going on in our lives over the past few weeks before discussing why certain tweets end up…

00:57:12  |   Mon 21 Jun 2021
Online Dating and Unconditional Parenting

Online Dating and Unconditional Parenting

After a few weeks away, we’re back with another episode that dives into Ali’s dating life and explores more theories and ideas around children and parenting.

We first discuss the etiquettes and expect…

00:46:18  |   Tue 01 Jun 2021
Starting A Charity, Having An Impact and An Important Pledge

Starting A Charity, Having An Impact and An Important Pledge

This week we’re joined by returning guest to the podcast, Lucia, to talk about her charity work. We discuss her reasons for starting her charity, LEEP, her experiences since it was formed and the imp…

01:22:31  |   Mon 10 May 2021
Guitars, WeWork & The Curse of Knowledge

Guitars, WeWork & The Curse of Knowledge

After a couple of weeks away, we’re back with updates on what we’ve been up to since our last recorded episode. From Taimur’s live rendition of Brown Eyed Girl to Ali’s discovery of WeWork to a conve…

01:08:21  |   Mon 03 May 2021
Anna Codrea-Rado (Author & Podcaster) on Writing, Careers & The Changing Nature of Work

Anna Codrea-Rado (Author & Podcaster) on Writing, Careers & The Changing Nature of Work

This week we’ve got another in-betweenisode because our diaries didn’t match up for us to record a podcast so we’re releasing an interview that Ali recently did with journalist, author and podcaster …

01:23:07  |   Mon 26 Apr 2021
How should we treat children? (A Brief Discussion)

How should we treat children? (A Brief Discussion)

In this short episode, we continue our recent discussions around how kids are treated in society. We talk about a recent post by Duncan Sabien which raises four main points about how we treat, or sho…

00:26:58  |   Mon 19 Apr 2021
Toxic Productivity, Competition & Framing Work

Toxic Productivity, Competition & Framing Work

After a week away, we’re back with a typically wide-ranging episode. Our discussion ranges from toxic productivity to mindsets around competition and competitiveness to how we should frame the abstra…

00:49:20  |   Mon 12 Apr 2021
Brandon Sanderson (Best-Selling Author) on Writing, Careers and Finding Your Passion

Brandon Sanderson (Best-Selling Author) on Writing, Careers and Finding Your Passion

Hey everyone - another bit of an 'in-between'-isode this week. In this episode, Ali talks to Brandon Sanderson - his favourite author of all time. Brandon is a best-selling author who has written boo…

01:34:58  |   Mon 05 Apr 2021
Reflections on 100 Episodes

Reflections on 100 Episodes

In this episode, we look back over the past two years of recording this podcast. We discuss why we think it’s lasted so long, reflect on how the podcast has changed over the two years since we began …

01:08:23  |   Mon 29 Mar 2021
Should we optimise our relationships?

Should we optimise our relationships?

In this episode, we're joined by Joey Savoie, co-founder of Charity Entrepreneurship. Joey's an expert at 'spreadsheetising' all aspects of his life, including health, relationships and careers to ha…

02:15:43  |   Mon 22 Mar 2021
Introverts, Extroverts and Identity Signals

Introverts, Extroverts and Identity Signals

In this episode, we begin by talking about Ali’s theory for what makes for a good blog post or YouTube video before a tweet from none other than Agnes Callard about introverts sends us down a path de…

00:58:35  |   Mon 15 Mar 2021
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