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Responsibility Overwhelm

Responsibility Overwhelm

As I approach my 2nd year, I am further fragmenting my time between studying, extracurriculars, preparing for new leadership roles, organizing my research, and maintaining my personal life. At times I feel that it’s unrealistic for me to believe that I can do it all, and do it all

Beliefs & Mindsets

Beliefs & Mindsets

I listened to a thought-provoking podcast recently with Drs. Andrew Huberman and Alia Crum [https://hubermanlab.com/dr-alia-crum-science-of-mindsets-for-health-performance/] , during which they talk about Dr. Crum [https://psychology.stanford.edu/people/alia-crum]’s research on how our beliefs and mindsets can affect our health. Dr. Crum described a study [https://dash.

Combating Anxiety & Overstimulation

Combating Anxiety & Overstimulation

It wasn’t until after finishing my first semester when I realized that I had been overstimulating myself. I rarely took a day off and I was mostly managing my stress with distractions like Netflix, podcasts, or YouTube. As a result, it took me almost the entire first week of

Books I Read In March 2022

Books I Read In March 2022

Total Pages Read: 1,694 | Inspired by Cal Newport Loonshots [https://amzn.to/3MCSwzw] by Safi Bahcall | Paperback Bahcall, a physicist-turned-businessman, uses phase transitions and the theory of emergence to explain how companies, organizations, and empires interact in order to nurture loonshots — the crazy ideas that are initially widely rejected

My Study Strategy for Medical School

My Study Strategy for Medical School

Meta-Macro My study strategy is intertwined with my time management system. I use a fixed-schedule productivity approach, only allowing myself to study between 7 am and 5 pm every day, except Saturdays (rest day). Leveraging Parkinson's Law, this forces me to find ways to get work done within

Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

You can purchase the book here: Hardcover [https://amzn.to/3toMAmg] | Kindle [https://amzn.to/3iljNbR] | Audiobook [https://amzn.to/364Efvf] I absolutely love Cal Newport's podcast [https://www.calnewport.com/podcast/] — I listen to it religiously. However, I feel that I didn’t need Part I of

My Time Management System

My Time Management System

This article is inspired by Cal Newport’s Productivity Funnel Framework [https://www.calnewport.com/blog/2021/04/20/the-productivity-funnel/] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Recently, I’ve discovered Cal Newport through a Tim Ferriss podcast episode [https://open.spotify.com/episode/1F3WsugZtMfK6D4nTAF07R?si=b6a59af9d681450a] and I cannot get enough of this guy. His