Tag: Dropout

I’d had enough.

It was 2003, and I was a medical student who’d spent the last three years being harassed, bullied and left being thoroughly disillusioned with the career I’d once been so enamoured with.

So one evening after lectures, I climbed the creaky stairs to the attic that I was renting, gently closed the door, walked under the skylight window to the desk in the corner, sat down, took out a sheet of foolscap and a blue Bic biro…and started to write.

I wrote for what seemed like over an hour.

And when I pressed the final full stop in the page, and read through what I’d written, I wasn’t happy.

You see, what I’d written was a detailed, thought through description of what my life would look like over the next 40 years if I continued on the path that I was currently on.

I wrote out what would happen after third year, fourth year, fifth year, graduation, internship, hours I’d be working, time and energy costs, social circles I’d be moving in, the type of person I’d be likely to marry given my circumstances, family expectations of continuing my family’s medical legacy…all the way up to retirement from the career path I was plodding along.

And what I read didn’t excite me, fill me with joy, or inspire me with hope for the future.

Instead it underscored for me a truth that I knew before I started writing:

Something has got to change.

I need to figure out how to escape from the gravity of this world that I’m currently stuck on.

I can’t keep going like this.

Within 6 months of writing those pages, I was suddenly kicked out of Medical School and launched on a 14-year Journey that led to me starting Bizarro School of Medicine, and helping Medics from around the world to find and achieve their personal Escape Velocity.

And it all started from deciding to figure out what would happen if I stayed on the path I was on without changing anything…and also deciding whether what I saw was acceptable to me or not.

It wasn’t. And the moment I declared that to myself, things changed.

If the story you’re living out doesn’t have an ending that you are willing to accept, the good news is that you can change it.

You don’t need to know how. Instead, you just need to decide that your story needs a better ending…and then the details of how will make themselves known.

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