How I Grew from 0 to 500k Followers In Under 2 Years - Sahil Bloom

Subscribe to LifeNotes 👉 https://go.aliabdaal.com/lifenotes_deepdive Go to https://shortform.com/deepdive to get 20% off the annual premium subscription. Learn more about Notion and get started for free at notion.com/deepdive. 📚 Check Out My New York Times Bestselling Book Feel-Good Productivity! 👉 https://go.feelgoodproductivity.com/podcast 📧 Sign up for LifeNotes - my weekly newsletter where I share actionable productivity tips, practical life advice, and high-quality insights from across the web directly to your inbox. 👉https://go.aliabdaal.com/lifenotes/podcast We all want to find happiness and fulfilment in our lives and careers. We want that sense of having ‘enough’. This episode’s guest has done just that. Sahil Bloom is an investor, creator, entrepreneur (also a former pro baseball player) and now a busy new dad raising his two month old son. In this conversation we talk about finding purpose, the longevity of online careers and how to become durable creators. I also get some great financial advice from Sahil about how to invest during a recession while keeping things simple. 00:00 Intro 02:13 Having enough as a new dad 4:51 How do we find purpose? 11:07 Happiness vs. Fulfilment 14:10 Measuring impact 16:48 Online careers 22:36 Sahil’s financial advice 25:35 Cutting back complexity 31:26 Coping with virality 37:07 Growth vs. passion 42:51 We can’t automate personality 47:34 Being a durable creator 53:43 Longevity and core values 1:03:30 Are you default alive or default dead? 1:19:16 Enjoying the side hustle 1:27:11 Starting Youtube today 1:31:35 Making money now 1:41:48 Sahil’s fitness routine 🔗 CONNECT WITH SAHIL 🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/SahilBloom 📸 Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sahilbloom/ 💻 Website - https://www.sahilbloom.com/ 👥 Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/sahilbloom 🔗 CONNECT WITH ALI 💌 Sign up to my weekly email newsletter - https://aliabdaal.com/friendzone/ 🎥 YouTube Channel - https://youtube.com/aliabdaal 💻 Website - https://aliabdaal.com 📸 Instagram - https://instagram.com/aliabdaal 🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/aliabdaal 👥 Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ali-abdaal/ 💙 The Friendzone Discord - https://discord.gg/Dh2kGavffd 📚 RESOURCES MENTIONED How to Say "No" When It Matters Most (or "Why I'm Taking a Long 'Startup Vacation'") - https://tim.blog/2015/10/29/startup-vacation-2/ The Four Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss - https://geni.us/yfFOA5v Alive or default dead? - http://www.paulgraham.com/aord.html 📙 SPONSORED BY SHORTFORM This episode is kindly brought to you by Shortform, the world's best provider of guides for non-fiction books. Shortform gives you comprehensive coverage of thousands of books, the key ideas, clearly and simply explained, plus smart commentary and analysis. It’s like your smartest friend teaching you about a book. Go to www.shortform.com/deepdive to get 20% off the annual premium subscription. 📱SPONSORED BY NOTION This episode is kindly brought to you by Notion, the all-in-one team collaboration tool that combines note-taking, document sharing, wikis, project management and much more into one space that’s simple, powerful, and beautifully-designed. Notion has a worldwide network of millions of users creating templates, tutorials, and new inspiration. Learn more about Notion and get started for free at notion.com/deepdive. 📄SHOW NOTES & TRANSCRIPT Visit the website for the transcript and highlights from the conversation - https://aliabdaal.com/podcast/ 🎙 ABOUT THE PODCAST The podcast that delves into the minds of entrepreneurs, creators and other inspiring people to uncover their journey's towards finding joy and fulfilment at work and in life. My names Ali, and in each episode I chat to my guests about the philosophies, strategies and tools that've helped them along the path to living a life of happiness and meaning. Want to start your own podcast? We use Transistor! https://go.aliabdaal.com/transistor 🎧 LISTEN FOR FREE Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast... Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7gZkflC... RSS - https://feeds.transistor.fm/deep-dive 🙏 LEAVE A REVIEW If you enjoyed listening to the podcast, we'd love for you to leave a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts to help others discover the show :) https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast... 👋🏼 GET IN TOUCH You can also Tweet @AliAbdaal with any feedback, ideas or thoughts about the lessons you've learnt from the episodes and we can thank you personally for tuning in 🙏 PS: Some of the links in this description are affiliate links that I get a kickback from 😜