If you feel that you are in competition with anyone, for anything, you are a loser.

My retirement plan.

This advice is so relevant in Medicine.

Toda Latinoamérica:

Thinking of myself at 75 with full mobility motivates me

If you aren’t getting happier as you get older, you’re doing it wrong.

Marcus Aurelius, an underrated one

America would be a much better place if more people focused on their work, their kids, and their families first. Strong households create strong communities. You don’t build a healthy society from the outside in.

If you were happy when you were poor, you will be insanely happy if you get rich. If you were miserable, you will stay miserable, just with a lot less financial stress

The leader is not the one who eats first. The leader is the one who has the power to eat first but chooses to eat last.

giving teenagers SSRIs and birth control like they're tic tacs and then wondering why they cant feel anything by 25

Women grow an entire human being for nine months, push it out of their body, and then are expected to be back in the office in 6-8 weeks and see the baby for a handful of hours a day. We’ve genuinely normalized this. It doesn’t register as insane until you say it out loud.

Vincent van Gogh, 1882, in a letter to his brother Theo.

The stronger your spirit gets, the worse the pain of living a misaligned life will become

Studying is hard. Failing your exams is much harder. Staying focused is hard. Falling behind your study schedule is much harder. Doing active recall is hard. Forgetting everything you’ve studied is much harder. Choose your hard.

Mentally healthy people are often delusionally optimistic.

airport behavior determines more about a person than astrology or a personality test ever could

The fastest way to attract what’s meant for you is to express yourself so honestly that everything misaligned falls away on its own.

You are replaceable at work, but you are NOT replaceable at home. A beautiful and poignant reflection that applies to all clinicians.