How I stay happy working 80 hours a week
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 23 ноя 2020
- The first 1000 people to click the link will get a free trial of Skillshare's Premium Membership: skl.sh/liamporritt09201
I work really flipping hard - but, over the last year or so I've got a whole lot happier 😀. I've struggled with anxiety and putting myself under way to much pressure a lot in the last few years. But in the last 6 months, I've managed to get way better at enjoying the grind, not wishing time by: relishing life's more mundane moments... at my desk 🖥, chilling with family 🏡, going on a walk 🥾. Stuff I'm trying not to take for granted.
Stoicism has played a huge part in that. It's a philosophy I've really only discovered in the last year or so, and alongside the pragmatic French philosophers (e.g. Voltaire) I studied about at university, it's given me a much broader perspective on my life. From my 'can't-change-it attitude' to how I make sure I appreciate what I already have, in this video I share my top techniques for being happy 🤗
..............................................
📖 The Rules of Revision (The book I wrote with 10 Oxford and Cambridge pals) 📚
Link to the eBook (EXCLUSIVE 40% OFF Discount Code - YT40HAP1):
liamporritt.com/the-rules-of-...
🇺🇸 - Link to the hardcopy book on Amazon.com: amzn.to/2qneOzW
🇬🇧 - Link to the hardcopy book on Amazon.co.uk: amzn.to/2qoehhb
………………………………………………….
📸 Instagram - / liam.porritt
🌍 My little kingdom - liamporritt.com
Who I am:
I'm a trainee lawyer studying in London. I graduated from Cambridge, speak French and Spanish and don’t believe in “natural talent” 😮 BUT... I do believe that TOGETHER, WE ARE ALL CAPABLE OF POSITIVITY, PRODUCTIVITY AND SUCCESS.
………………………………………………….
Thanks so much to SkillShare for sponsoring this video 😀 
Хобби
Last time I was this early Liam was still at uni
Just remember that life is more than a job. Passions, hobbies, relationships... I know that you have to keep image of being perfect etc. BUT do not waste your youth! I understand, some people like their jobs, but that’s only part of the unity, remember it and live to be proud of yourself.
Life costs too much and the world is in a recession. Put aside 500 a month into an investment plan and grind for now. Your spirit will be crushed but unfortunately most of us don't have a choice.
But why not have your job be your hobbies, passion and allow it to create relationships
Thank you for this video! It made me feel much much better 🙌🏼
Thanks Liam, I really needed this video. I'm a high school senior and I've been stressing out with my classes, scholarships, standardized tests, and college applications, while still having a life. It's just that there are so many expectations from other people that I just forget to take a moment to breath and enjoy my down time.
Thanks for the reminder 😊
You do not know how much i needed this. Thank you for making this video.
So so glad! 😊🤗
This is amazing it's just 4 minutes and I am here and the video is amazing
ahhh learning to enjoy the moment is definitely something I need to work on!! I forget to be grateful and happy about the things that are going on right in my life sometimes
I’ve struggled with it so much in the last few years, hence this video! I think I have got wayyy better at it, but still a way to go 😊
You are the first youtuber that I can really relay on. Go on mate.
Just what I needed to hear this week, thank you ❤️
So glad 😊🤗
very motivational, i am 14 years old and use these videos to get motivated when studying, love the videos Liam
its weird because being mentally ill and having ADHD has made me think about this stuff so much and sometimes people are so happy when they hear i'm 'getting better' but when I say I'm better I don't mean I don't struggle still I mean that I actually have addressed a lot of my issues and confronted things that most people never do. and I feel weird because I want everyone to do that but self-reflection, introspection and learning how to improve your life for some reason is limited to people who are "officially" mentally ill, and I think to an extent those who are physically ill/ disabled as well. We have to go through these processes of reflection and acceptance and self-improvement just to survive and not just curl up in a ball forever, and "normal" people don't have to confront themselves in the same way. My advice to everyone no matter how happy or mentally well you think you are is to take your blinkers off and figure out wtf you actually want in life because it's sad constantly having conversations with people who think that being well means surviving and doing rather than actually learning how to be happy and enjoy stuff. And that's not me being preachy or superior - I genuinely just get frustrated having people listen to what I say and then say implicitly or explicitly 'yeah ok great, but that doesn't apply to me because I'M not like THAT'. I don't want to just hop from one thing to the next and constantly feel shit anymore and it's a struggle when it feels like the outside world is telling you that's how you should be happy. (And I won't ramble on about capitalism being a huge part of this lol.)
Thanks for this video, I've just started watching you and I can see why you're such a good student - it's because you've got that creativity, passion for learning and intelligence combined with self-discipline, hard work and organisational skills. I think most people tend to stick to one or the other and I'm very glad I have the creative passionate side naturally, and am now finally (FINALLY) forcing myself to learn the self-discipline and organisation stuff too, and creators such as you remind me that it is possible to do both! I need to harness the skills my ADHD has given me and manage the issues I have so I can enjoy life and be the person I want to be, and that's a person who doesn't just plod through the tunnel but enjoys all the aspects of life within it :) Also I've been trying to start a youtube channel for a couple of years and I feel hopefully Ill be in a place to start that soon so seeing someone like you who does so much work (like seriously i cannot relate) and also runs such a great channel is very encouraging too!
Wow thank you for this
This video is a masterpiece, congratulations! You have made my day! 👏👏👏
Dear Liam, you might not see this, I am a student studying overseas in a foreign country with foreign language . I got to do my internship by next semesters which is about 3-4 months away, I got so stressed out from doing my CV and resume. I constantly cried because I was so stress additionally study at home, I have not much people to talk to. Thanks for cheering up me. It meant a lot.
You got this. We support you.
Really loved this video. Thanks so much for this great channel!
It's not just what you say but the excitement and curiosity you bring in your own words that really drives me
Thank you for this video, it's extremely useful right now
your videos have inspired and helped a lot in my studies and lot other things ..thank you and keep doing more..
Such a well put-together presentation. Excellent job. I just started a new, high stress full-time job while running two RUclips channels and I was looking for some perspective that would keep me calm and grounded. This was it. I will probably watch this regularly, as a reminder to stay grateful and focused on the present moment. Thank you so much. 💯
Happy to see your views going up ! The content is great you deserved it
Eagerly waiting for the desk tour!
Great advice. My advice to you is relax in terms of not overthinking continuously.
Love all the tips you shared in this video 🙏
Great video mate ! Inspirational
Great video Liam stumbled across your channel earlier this year and it motivated me to start mine!
Great video very useful tips. I look forward to implementing them into my week and seeing how it goes.
Thank you! Let me know how you get on 😊
Thanks! helped a lot !
Good video thanks!
This is such a good video! It really has substance, compared to a lot of self help video that are very surface level.
I have depression and anxiety and appreciating the small things and what I already have has helped tremendously. A small exercise I used to do that helped was writing down every evening all the good things that have happened that day or that I felt grateful for. It was usually stuff like finding a good song, spending time with friends or situations in which I fought my anxiety and small successes or compliments I got. That really helped me focus on the positive side of life. I also practice low expectations. My motto is if I expect the worst, I can only be positively surprised. But you shouldnt overdo your pessimism!
The most important thing I took from this video is confronting your regrets. Bc of my anxiety I often beat myself up over small things that happened years ago, so I really should try that. Great advice!
Also the editing of this video is really great!
Love this idea of writing down all the positive stuff from a day so you feel a sense of achievement looking back - definitely going to try doing that more 😊🤗
You and Ali Abdaal have a very pragmatic approach to life and I must say it's very healthy. We don't know what tomorrow has in store for us so we need to live for the moment.
Thanks so much David! 😊
LOVE FROM INDIA LIAM. I'M 16 AND YOU ARE AN INSPIRATION...
Well done! Such a great vid with so many truths. Classy pics too!
Thank you so much Nathan!
Thank you for this video n I feel u must continue making videos because your ideas are very practical which we need more . I really liked your video on spaced repetition and I always look for it . And last don’t worry about the views because you always have a brilliant practical ideas which others don’t know to share so should appreciate this always 👍👍🙏🙏
please do more videos on philosophy and how you actually learnt about the different types THANK YOU LIAM X
This video is a masterpiece mate!
Thank you so much, Ali 😊
Great video as always! By the way, I've noticed you use the BOSE headphones, did you upgrade them? I'm not sure if I should or not and who's better to be asked than you? Thanks for your attention. Have a good day!
Hey buddy, please make a video about your set up (monitors) where one can get them? How much they are and how do you set them up
Stumbled upon you'r channel from the London flat video. It's really unique, beautiful filming and quality far beyond your sub count! Keep it up, really enjoying your content :)
Thank you so much Iwan! 🤗😊
Golly, and here I've been wondering when I could treat myself to your LPC notes (I started the GDL in Jan and finished my exams in August, just before you released your notes) as I've said to myself that one of the ways I'll revise for the CPA exams in January is to cross-check my notes against yours 🙈 Video looks fab, keep up the great work and congrats to you and Beth on your new home, it looks lovely!!
When is desk setup video coming out ?? 🙃
... next 😝😝
When is your desk setup video coming out
Can you make a video what books changed or influenced your life? Would be awesome, like your content.
Liam, If you don’t mind me asking what firm do you work for?
Amazing
This was inspiring
Espero verte un día hablando español bro. Saludos desde Perú, tu único fan. Eres una inspiración para mí como estudiante de Derecho y Leyes.
Thanks
Great video, very interesting.
One distraction I had :
You’re a trainee at Clifford Chance + earning revenue from RUclips etc and drinking Budweiser ???
Legit LOL
Top 500 😃💪🏽
By any chance, have you done a course in psychology or something? Cause you seem like a pro! Great job Liam!
Can you send me a link to the Marcus Aurelius quote? I can't seem to find it anywhere. Maybe its in Latin?
I’m currently sitting in a Chick-Fil-A parking lot dreading the fact that I have to go in in 12 minutes. I know that I can’t complain because I’m lucky to even be employed but I know 100% this isn’t what I want to do. Every day at work is a struggle to keep my happiness up and my depression down. It kills me. For the past 2 months, every day I say to myself “god I want to quit so bad”, the next question I ask is “then what do you want to do?” And that answer is music production. It’s just the tunnel. It’s the feeling of being vulnerable. It’s so hard to fight. I hope soon I can drop this fast food gig and really shoot for what I want to do. Thank you for your videos.
So sorry I never relied to this bud - but I guess the real question for me is if you really want music production, make it happen now, as something you start practicing and fitting in around your Chick-Fil-A job?! 😊🤗
work on music production for a few hours everyday after work
Amazing 👍
Now I should take aim and fire away
No disrespect bro, I am just genuinely curious. Why does your job take 80 hours a week? Like are you reading 50 contracts straight and the transactions are that complex? You work 16 hours a day assuming a 5 day work week and from an outsider's perspective you are getting ho'ed by your firm bro, stoicism or not that seems excessive.
What is it that drives you? Lord knows there must be easier means to make money.
Keep up the great videos!
I should be clear - the 80 hours is across my job as a trainee lawyer and all the stuff I do working in my business, including making videos 😀 I based it on a 50-hour work week, with 30 hours of my own work around that, which I reckon is on the high side of the average amount I work in a week 🤗
@@liam.porritt If you find time, please make a video about your feelings and experiences in the first months of your trainee lawyer job - thank you.
Where was your channel the whole time? Where was it ??? Why am I finding it only now??
well you reached 10k views well done mate :))))
So inspiring and some great tips! Great video Liam! Totally agree about tunnel vision, sometimes we need to zoom out a bit!
Prozac is one hell of a drug.
I'm watching a new born Philosopher in you Liam !
Hehe- why thank you 😝😝
@@liam.porritt Shifting in your own apartment and living with your partner might have opened a whole new philosophical portal in your life I guess
So, is the point of the video, that we should enjoy our work moment from moment/ live in the moment while working? Not having an end-goal in mind? And therefore we won't feel burnt out, because we enjoyed the time we had at work, insteaf of thinking: I want to do this, I want to do that? Would really appreciate, if someone would give me an answer 😊
Yes and no. I think the main point is focusing on positive things in your life and appreciating what you already have instead of constantly chasing new things. Also dont measure your success by things that you have no control over and kinda chill out about bad things happening to you that you have no control over. Of course that is only possible to a certain degree tho. Personally I think one needs to find balance between living in the moment but also having some sort of goal in your life. I think having no aspirations sucks too lol. But dont let your aspirations cover the good things you already have!
@@internetpotato6734 Thank you for answering 😊
Hi Liam, I am 14 years old and recently started watching your videos. My brother just started working at Clifford Chance as well, so you two might know each other? Anyway, his name is Oliver (maybe Ollie idk). Anyway yeah I thought that was really cool. and also I think you called your dog Winston, and that's my cat's name too :) 😂
Haha- hey Raph!! Thanks so much for getting in touch and YESSSS I absolutely know your brother - Ollie and I were in the same group on the LPC, and are in the same department now!! Such a small world... and great name for a cat... or dog 😂
I work for 2 hours today and feel happily backache-ish. COVID-19 made me old faster but I can WFH. COVID-19 just achieve its "Challenge and Opportunity in the same time" certificate.
you are in love and young! Hopefully, it stays like that for you.
And here I am, working at the big company, around 72 h per week and crying every day after work cause that all I can do in my life, bcs I'm a trash. RUclips really wants to make me feel worse by recommended this video 😅
Quite a bad perspective on it. You should focus on the concrete tipps given in those videos, because there might be at least one tipp that might change your days from crying to accepting or handling those very hard working days better.
Plz how do u get background music
Epidemic Sound / MusicBed
I love your videos!!!! Good job. You’re really smart. And your gf is so cute. Cute couple.
💚
I really love your channel and the work you put in, but I really wonder if working 80 hours is healthy and if we all should idealise it
Totally agree.
Totally agree. 80 hours is too much and not healthy. This person says he is happy and I’m happy for him but the average person would break at 80 hour work weeks and it shouldn’t be encouraged. I’ve seen lots of young people (even teenagers) idealising him in the comment section for his hard work... it’s insane and so so so toxic
@@aidenl5215 I’ll be honest I also make RUclips videos about productivity and study. Not falling into this trap is really hard. I think this video has good tips but it’s not something to model
S0 actually the reason is if you make something out of it you'll be happy but in my case I don't make any money so whether I like or not I feel like-burden
I work 25 hours per day
Hewoooo
sup timbaland gonna flash me a gang sign
I’m sure the video is well intended and to motivate others. But for anyone especially people with family history of mental illness this sort of lifestyle is not recommended. I worked 70+ hour weeks for months consecutively a few years back and it was the onset of my anxiety disorder. Life is a lot harder than it used to be and the suffering multiplied tremendously. So yeh you can come out of one 80 hours week smiling but do that consecutively and what that does to your mental health no one can promise is repairable. Society likes to make overworking a virtue because everything that isn’t procrastination and “laziness” must be desirable, but like everything else in life there is always a balance. If you’re reading this and going on these websites you’re likely to be a hardworking conscientious soul looking for ways to increase productiveness, which is also important and all that, but always aim at longevity in productivity.
Wow thank youu
80 hrs is too much. Thats why I dont like to be a lawyer and instead Im preparing for a another law related job.
Can I ask what's the other job
@@cj5803 notary public
Awesome video but I don't get what it has to do with working 80 hours a week.
We need to stop normalising overworking
I don’t honestly feel like I’m overworking - I work 80 hours in total as a lawyer and making RUclips videos, and I enjoy it more than chilling... but I do also LOVE chilling in the other hours I have, and seeing family and friends 😊😊
Regardless of how you feel you are perpetuating a toxic work culture. Depending on when you do your work 11-16 hour working days are NOT healthy and it should not be encouraged by being happy doing it. You’re extremely privileged to be in the position you’re in but the people watching this video may not be, they may not be in jobs where the grind is remotely satisfying but due to the work culture we’re in now and the current climate people will even feel guilty (for various reasons) by not working as hard/as much as you do in a Week. It’s not healthy, it’s not normal and sharing it on the internet will encourage other people to do it. No matter how eloquently you phrase it, encouraging this for views is even more toxic.
@@liam.porritt like just look at your comments... they’re either young people (one person said they’re 14) saying how motivated they are and others saying how rubbish they feel when they’re already working 72H weeks...
Looking forward towards the next fat paycheck does it for me.
hiiiiiiiiiiiii
no u dont