New podcast conversation out now. Are you on a Pathless Path, or a Treadmill of Achievement?

"How do you manage staying away from hustle culture while promoting your work, which is decidedly against hustle culture?" - DM from follower Wellness people in #medtwitter, how do you do it? My response: practicebalance.com/2024/04/…

Do you have an intense need to achieve? This podcast is next in a series sharing the Lean Out book, chapter by chapter. Warning - deeply personal stuff in this one 😊. practicebalance.com/2024/03/…

“My whole life changed. Everything about it. Not overnight! But… I just started seeing how much power I actually had in my hands, and I just didn’t know it.” Leaning out is often a gradual step-by-step process. What’s your next step?leanoutpodcast.buzzsprout.co…

“Whether you’re using social media for fun or for your business, remember that your time and attention are your greatest assets.” Do you struggle to stop the scroll? practicebalance.com/2024/03/…

Have you read these yet? financialsuccessmd.com/two-g…

““My best day working as a W2 employee, which was a good job but tough… was never as good as my worst day at my business.” Check out this episode of the Lean Out Podcast! practicebalance.com/2023/10/…

Excellent framework for acting with integrity as a medical professional

Anyone that thinks they “need” more than 10k a month to live is just creating a prison in their head If you had to you could easily redesign your life. And if you have the ingenuity to make $10k a month you have the ingenuity to maintain a good quality of life

Was Sheryl Sandberg wrong? @DLBakerMD talks about: - recovering from brain surgery - following a non-traditional path in medicine - homeschooling her daughter off-grid - the real challenges of infertility Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=BaHNkB7z… Listen: link.chtbl.com/fd2B7qjV

Good advice on identifying your YES! early. It's a balance. Exploration is useful. Narrow too early & you miss some truly valuable opportunities. BUT. Saying yes to everything makes it harder to do anything well. #AcademicChatter @RUBraveEnough @DLBakerMD

On the 27th straight day of filming “Forrest Gump,” Tom Hanks was tired & worried. During a scene on the famous park bench, Hanks stopped & said to director Bob Zemeckis, “Hey, Bob…is anybody going to care about this movie? I don’t think anybody’s going to care.” Bob replied, “It’s a minefield, Tom. You never know what’s good…It’s a minefield! It’s a goddam minefield! We may be sowing the seeds of our own destruction.” Tom Hanks told this story after he was asked, “When I ask for a memory from your career, what’s the first thing that comes to mind?” He said that what Zemeckis said was true of every movie he’s worked on: “There’s never any guarantee...You do not know if it is going to work out.” Takeaway 1: Hanks is the 5th-most highest-grossing actor of all time. And yet, the stickiest memory of his career is the feeling of uncertainty. Rarer than talent or work ethic, the poet John Keats wrote, is the ability to step into and push through doubts and uncertainties. In 1817, Keats wrote a letter to his brothers to share this exciting realization. “At once it struck me,” Keats wrote, “what quality went to form a Man of Achievement … Negative Capability.” Keats explains that “Negative Capability” is “when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.” Takeaway 2: Those who possess Negative Capability, who can sit with uncertainty, who can spend months or years in the minefield that is working on something while knowing that there is a real possibility no one will care about it—they often possess another quality. They do what they do, not as a means to some end (money, fame, awards, etc.), but for the sake of doing it. When asked about one of his movies that commercially failed, Hanks said, "I loved making that movie. I loved writing it, I loved being with it. I love all the people in it." As Ryan Holiday once told me, "The work has to be the win." You control the effort, he says, not the results. "So ultimately, you have to love doing it. You have to get to a place where doing the work is the win and everything else is extra.” - - - “Life is like a box of chocolates: you never know what you're going to get.” — Forrest Gump Follow @bpoppenheimer for more content like this!

“It felt like the worst kind of hamster wheel, it was not at all the pot of gold I’d imagined… and slowly I started resenting the problems of my patients.” practicebalance.com/2023/06/…