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Your parents are not the enemy

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.

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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

How To Drop Out Of Medicine

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.