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Overdose through your ears (aka becoming an Audio junkie)

The Tim Ferriss Show. Mike Rowe’s The Way I Heard It. Brian Clark’s Unemployable. Pat Flynn’s Smart Passive Income Podcast. Starting From Nothing. School of Greatness. AWMI. WTF podcast. Jim Rohn. Darren Hardy. Krista Tippett’s On Being. Zig Ziglar. Malcolm Gladwell’s Revisionist History. The James Altucher Show. The #AskGaryVee Podcast. Seth Godin’s Startup School. Creative Mornings. Save the Cat. Indie Film Hustle. Go Fork Yourself.

Load up your phone/ipod/mp3 player with thousands of hours of “good stuff”…just click and add it all.

Then hook up your earphones…and press play.

Keep your headphones attached to your ears.

Use an app like Rocketplayer that will automatically start playing the moment your earphones are plugged in.

And keep listening to the good stuff 24/7.

Stuff that inspires you, feeds your vision, provokes you to take action, paints a positive picture of life outside of Medical School.

How you turn that picture into reality isn’t the point.

Right now, you’re just trying to undo years of brainwashing that would keep you from even imagining another life where you don’t feel trapped and miserable.

In other words, we’re setting up an IV drip for your soul through your ears.

And we’re infusing you with stories, ideas and different voices who you may not agree 100% with.

But what these different voices will do is recharge your passions, revive your curiosity, joy and desire to be more than they say you are…and more importantly:

Give you different options and choices on how you can engage with the world.

So grab your headphones, subscribe to all those podcasts (and others)…and then click play.

As of now, you’re trading your addiction to misery, frustration, whining, helplessness, self-prescribed binging on alcohol/sex/drugs/Netflix…for an addiction to life transforming audio.

You are an Audio junkie.

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8 myths about Medical school (and becoming a Doctor)

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Doctors make more money than Dog walkers
Respect and high-esteem from all your patients
Always have a job
Spend your life making a difference
You can be a Doctor and follow your true passion at the same time
Borrow the money…you’ll be able to pay it back easily once you qualify
Being trained to help patients…it’s not just 40 years of managing disease
Medical school is committed to bringing out the best in you

Good news #1: You weren’t wrong to believe these lies; you were just lied to by those you trusted…as they were by those that they trusted. Like the investors Bernie Madoff conned out of $65 billion.

Good news #2: Once you realise you were lied to, you’re free to make different decisions and choices based on what you actually want, and on what’s actually true.

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You are not a failure if you change plans

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That’s the brilliant gem from Alex, when he wrote the post:

The Most Important Thing I’ve Learned in Medical School (and It’s Not Medicine)

Changing plans isn’t a sign of failure. In fact, changing plans is the only way to achieve success.

Nokia started as a paper mill…until it transitioned to be a mobile phone company.

Amazon started by only selling books…and then expanded to become the multi-billion dollar Everything Store.

Google started as just a search engine…and grew to fulfil its vision of ” all the world’s information in just one click”.

You started life out as a foetus living in your mother’s womb with webbed feet, a tail, an umbilical cord and a placenta. When it was time for you to be born, you got rid of everything that was unnecessary for your new phase of life in order for you to thrive in your new environment.

Just because you start somewhere doesn’t mean you have to stay there.

Remember: you are not a failure if you change plans.

You’re not the only one (staring at the sun)

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I’m not the only one starin’ at the sun
Afraid of what you’d find if you took a look inside
Not just deaf and dumb i’m staring at the sun
Not the only one who’s happy to go blind — Bono

Cindy quit in 3rd year to become a teacher and start a family.

Roshaan quit in his 4th year, to pursue a lifelong passion for astronomy, despite the lack of support or esteem from his community in Pakistan.

Michael graduated from Harvard Medical School, did a postgraduate fellowship study at the Salk Institute of Biological Studies…and then quit to become a full time science fiction writer…creating novels, movies and franchises such as Jurassic Park, ER, The Andromeda Strain, Twister, and many others.

Ali also went to Harvard, became a Doctor, and then quit to pursue a career as an author…publishing the #1 rated dating book on Amazon for 4+ years: The Tao of Dating.

Peter wanted to fly into space…but went to medical school to make his parents proud. He launched a space company in his 4th year, graduated after promising the Dean he would never practise medicine…and launched the $10million X Prize, Planetary Resources (an asteroid mining company), just to mention a few projects.

Lisa, Ernesto, Pau, and Graham each abandoned a career in medicine to pursue a path that led to a role as Phoebe in Friends, leading a Marxist revolution in Argentina, 2 NBA championships and a career as a professional basketballer, and the founding of Monty Python.

Pamela qualified as a Doctor, but quit the traditional pathway to build a medical practice designed by her patients.

Maria walked away from medicine 4 years after qualifying. She told TEDxJohannesburg it was the best thing she ever did.

You’re not the only one…and you’re in great company.

Get busy living, or get busy dying

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Go watch The Shawshank Redemption…and you’ll see the whole film is summed up in 7 important words:

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

Life or death.

Waving or drowning.

No in between.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

Those 7 words are why you’re reading this right now.

Be grateful

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Be grateful.

Anytime you dare share how you’re really feeling, chances are that someone will tell you to just be grateful.

Don’t you know how many people would kill to be where you are…?

A variation of the “starving kids in Africa” argument that some parents use to guilt their kids into eating their supper.

But the problem is that when they tell you to “be grateful”, what they’re saying is “stop complaining”…and also “how you feel doesn’t really matter”.

How you feel does matter. And ignoring how you feel is an extremely dangerous thing.

However, the first step on your journey to a life of freedom and fulfilment…is to be grateful.

As in, to exercise your gratitude muscle.

Remember, this is in the context of dropping out of medical school and doing something about how miserable life feels right now.

But realise that as suicidal as you may feel…you’re still alive and able to do something about your situation.

You’re breathing. Your heart is pumping 5 litres of blood around your body every single minute. You have access to an Internet connection. You can read. You were born into the Connection economy. You have a device in your pocket that gives you access to over 2 billion people around the planet. You can watch Randy Pausch’s last lecture, What does the Fox say, or Uptown Funk anytime you want.

Now none of this is about diminishing the negative emotions you’re feeling right now.

But this is about hitting the reset button to place all the negative things you’re experiencing in the right perspective of all the positive things that you’re not acknowledging.

Gratitude isn’t a sedative to numb the pain and get you to stop complaining.

Instead, Gratitude is the rocket fuel that you’ll need for pursuing your dreams and desires.

So before we go any further, take a breath…and say thank you out loud for something you’re grateful for.

And if nothing else, be grateful that you’re on the verge of successfully dropping out of medical school to live the life you’ve always imagined.