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What turns you on?

What was the last thing you did, saw, ate or experienced that left you feeling turned on?

Heart racing, eyes dilating, imagination exploding with possibilities, adrenaline coursing through your blood stream and dopamine/serotonin flooding your nervous system.

What was it?

Deeper than sex, food, alcohol and drugs…what activities give you a similar high that you can’t get enough of?

Make a list right now…and then spend 5 minutes doing one of those things on your list.

The gruelling schedule of Med school is designed to kill your passions, or at least kill your ability to connect with them.

(An emotionally impotent person is much more compliant and easier to control than someone in touch with their life’s true passions.)

Now whilst you may feel you’ve lost your love for kite boarding, stamp collecting, air guitar or improve, taking a moment to admit that those things still turn you on (even a bit) is a step in rekindling your desire for those things.

So…what turns you on?

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Don’t die before you fly

How To Drop Out Of Medicine

If you’re thinking about ending it all anyway, why not go out with a bang?

Not the “bang” of a well-written note and a dramatically executed suicide.

That’s been done.

But the BANG of doing something outrageous, scandalous and outlandish in your skin…making everyone you know gasp in amazement.

Start a band and go homeless.

Launch a business and go bankrupt.

Write that novel and flunk all your exams.

Build a controversial following on Snapchat and be disowned and kicked out by your parents.

What will that feel like, how will you survive, what will you do next?

Those are questions you get to answer by deciding to stick around and go out with a bang.

Refuse to die before you fly.

Refuse to take yourself out of the game, just because of how awkward you think you’re making other people feel.

Insist on the right to live your life to the full, even if you screw-up along the way.

Demand that the world sees who you are — warts, smells and all — and make them try to take you out because of how blindingly brilliant your light is to their eyes.

(The way they took out JFK, MLK, Jesus, Abraham Lincoln, and many others).

There are tactics and strategies you can use to do this (as you’ll see in a moment).

But if you’re thinking of ending it all anyway…forget about the strategies and tactics…and skip straight to where you live such a bold, outrageously generous and daring life, that you get folk plotting on how to take you out.

Don’t die before you fly.

Refuse to die with your wings stuck inside you.

Unfold them and see where they take you.