Skills
Are you succeeding? If not, maybe you’re measuring success the wrong way
Every action you undertake begins with three things: Motivation – Why are you doing this? What’s driving you? What’s the point? Goal – What do you hope to achieve? What does success look like? Action plan – How will you achieve your goal? What do you need to do? Most of us understand this template [...]
5 Tips for a Successful Elevator Pitch
This past Monday and this morning, I was at the 2011 Canada-Wide Science Fair encouraging this year’s participants to try out the brand new SMARTS website. (When I started SMARTS in 2004, it was a plain website with information on a couple of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) opportunities myself and a few peers [...]
Why do we fail and how do we move forward from it?
On March 20, 2011 I challenged myself to make 30 posts in 30 days. Today is April 24, 2011, and I posted 11 times in that 30 day span. I failed in the challenge I set for myself. I apologized if I disappointed some of you who were looking forward to more frequent posting. No [...]
When you need help, look to your web of people
*Post 8 in the 30 Posts in 30 Days Challenge I’ve started a new project recently that requires me to learn how to use a tool I’ve never encountered before. Learning something new is always exciting. What’s challenging is troubleshooting – trying to solve problems in a world you’ve never been in before. Usually when [...]
Be organized!
*Post 7 in the 30 Posts in 30 Days Challenge I remember in high school and university hearing about the importance of developing “organizational skills”. To be honest, I don’t think anyone has ever really taught me what that even means. It’s only been recently when I’ve been in small group situations that I’ve realized [...]
Motivating people by making them invested
*Post 6 in the 30 Posts in 30 Days Challenge If you’re a business owner, it’s not hard to motivate people to do their work. In fact, they often do it no questions asked. Why? Well, if you’re being paid to do a job, and you need that job, you’re going to get your work [...]
Be an expert in follow up
*Post 5 in the 30 Posts in 30 Days Challenge Last night I was at a workshop delivered by two family physicians who both have long and distinguished careers as leaders in healthcare, from having executive positions in the college of physicians to running hospitals. One key piece of advice they provided was to be [...]
Adapting to authority
*Post 4 in the 30 Posts in 30 Days Challenge A friend and classmate of mine asked me the other day how to know if it’s okay to joke around with a supervising physician. I think it’s both an interesting and important question because it begs an even larger, more universal question when it comes [...]
A is for Attitude – maintaining a positive attitude even when everything goes bad
Last fall, Shelly wrote an entertaining about Med Student Awesome that was inspired by the Book of Awesome. The guy who wrote that book is Neil Pasricha, and a few weeks ago I stumbled upon a talk he gave at a TED event: It’s a fantastic talk and I encourage you to all to watch [...]
Feeling burned out? I used to be too.
Disclaimer: This is a humorous semi-humorous post. Please don’t use this post to judge my understanding of healthiness. I concur that I inappropriately make some unhealthy behaviours seem healthy. Two years ago, at one of my medical school interviews, I was asked, “How do you plan on dealing with burnout in medical school?” I remember [...]
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