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Become Batman

Don’t kill yourself.

Instead, kill the identity of your old self…and stick around to explore who you can be right now.

That’s how 8 year-old Bruce Wayne became Batman.

Wracked by grief after seeing his parents shot dead in front of him, young Bruce decided to secretly bury the life he was supposed to have before his parents were killed…and create an alternate identity that let him explore who he could become now.

He wore his old identity as a mask to give him the freedom of expressing his true self as Batman.

They think you’re just a focused medical student on track to making them proud.

You know you’re more than that. But don’t worry about trying to change this image.

Instead, use it as a mask that frees you to explore your true secret identity…and get to work on achieving your Escape Velocity.

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Master the 33 strategies of War

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The only way to successfully escape or transition from a dead-end career in Medicine…is to stop thinking like a Medic.

Instead, think like a military strategist who deploys tactics and manoeuvres to overcome obstacles and defeat insurmountable foes.

One of the fastest ways to do this is to devour “The 33 Strategies of War” by Robert Greene.

Read it, listen to it, take notes from it…and you’ll suddenly see a clear path open to you as you apply these strategies in your current situation.

Stop thinking like a Medic, and start thinking like a military strategist.

Your parents are not the enemy

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Your parents are not the enemy.

Instead, they’re just pawns in the bigger game that’s playing all around you.

It’s the game of the broken “Healthcare Factory System”. And the goal of the game is to recruit as many replaceable cogs (see: Doctors) to keep the system going.

Your parents are unwitting pawns in this game. They’ve been tricked into believing that the best thing they can do for their children’s future is to set them on the path to becoming a Doctor.

And that’s what they did with you.

Not because they hate you or even because they despise the dreams you’ve shared with them.

All they’re thinking about is the idea they were sold:

If my child becomes a Doctor, everything will be okay.

You already know that everything will not be okay.

But they don’t know that, and trying to convince them that they were wrong is an exercise in futility.

In other words: it’s never going to work.

What you need to do, instead, is give them a different story to tell themselves about you…a story in which you get to do what you’ve always dreamed of doing.

And the way you craft such a story, is by understanding one crucial thing:

Your parents are not the enemy…they’re just pawns in the bigger game that’s being played around you.

Seek first to understand…

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…then to be understood.

One of the most crucial lessons from Steven Covey’s “7 Habits of Highly Effective People”, especially when it comes to recruiting your parents as allies in your transition from a career in Medicine into the Work you were created to pursue.

Dare to feel where they’re coming from and looking at the world from their perspective (don’t worry about losing your sense of self or desire for freedom…that’s built into you)

Or as Stephen put it:

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

Not your Father’s world

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This is not your father’s world. And things are not the same as they were when he was the same age as you.

Which doesn’t mean he doesn’t know what he’s talking about.

But maybe he’s trying to prepare you for a world that doesn’t exist anymore.

Listen to your Dad’s advice…but remember to consider the world you’re actually living in, and not the one he wishes was still around.

Happily ever after

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That’s all your parents want for you, and they’re driving you towards the best path (that they know) to achieving that outcome.

Your dreams, ambitions and interests are seen as saboteurs of your success and hooligans who want to divert you towards a life of aimless drifting in mediocrity.

And that’s because you present them with no plan, no conviction and a poor track record of following things through.

(They remember all the other plans you convinced them you were interested in, and yet didn’t follow through on).

All they want is for you to live happily ever after. That’s all.

Understanding this is the first step to letting go of the bitterness, frustration and negative emotions that are inhibiting your ability to transform your dreams into reality.

You all want the same thing…you just have different ways of pursuing the same goal.