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#028 Pareto Principle in Action: Pinpointing Your High Impact Task

You’ve probably heard of Pareto's Law - 80% of your results come from 20% of your actions. The challenge lies in figuring out which actions make up that 20%. This week I’m sharing a simple 5 step process to get the highest impact from your time.

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#027 How I Smile When Bad Sh*t Happens

The day wasn't supposed to go like this. I had been operating all night and was looking at Hussain as he gave me the bad news.

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#026 From Numbers to Meaning: Why What You Value is Wrong

If you are in you mid-30's and your parents are in their 60's, we could be optimistic and say you at most have 30 more years together. That means when you left home you had already spent 93% of your face to face time together. You are now in your last 5% of your time with your parents.

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#025 Why Stress Isn't Killing You

"My mum got dementia. I looked after her everyday for 9 years. Washing her, feeding her and putting her to bed each night. I had the pain then, but I just put up with it because I had to. When she died, I sort of crumpled. All of a sudden I couldn't handle the pain. Now I'm here."

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ChatGPT versus Neuroanatomy: Leveraging AI to Simply the Complex

Unlimited free information is abundant, all over the internet. However finding the best resources can become complicated. When faced with learning a complex topic, more complexity isn't the answer. Here are 5 ChatGPT prompts that will help you learn anything.

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The Eisenhower Matrix: Your Secret Weapon Against Chaos at Work

It would be great if I could float through the day and execute what I've planned out But as a medic, we realise that life doesnt work like this. There is a never ending barrage of fires to put out, questions to answer and new problems to solve.

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Strategic Persistence - How to Keep Going and Succeed Wisely

“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function." - Scott F.Fitzgerald

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How to Use the Voice in Your Head to Stop Quitting

This is tough. I want to stop. I can't do this. All phrases I've heard in my head when my expectations clash with reality. Sometimes you've listened to this voice and given up when things got tough. In one second, you can change this.

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How to Get Into Deep Work

The world has been specifically designed to steal your attention every 60 seconds. In such a world, being able to find deep focus has become rare.

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Why Your Mind Isn't Your Brain

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Suffer Your Adventure

I've seen a 6 year old die from a massive stroke.There is no fairness in this. Only suffering. So in an unfair world, what should our expectations be?

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A Free Gift For You - 15 Simple Hacks for Maximum Energy

This week's post is a free gift. I started writing a Twitter thread on energy management. 3 hours later and it turned into a book. Inside are the 15 simple hacks I use to combat fatigue and tiredness everyday.

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How You Are Going to Die

Most people will die a death before their heart stops beating. If you no longer think clearly, or think like you could in mid-adulthood, have you died a cognitive death?

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The Tragedy of Your Attention

You get distracted every 8 minutes. In an 8 hour day, that's about 60 distractions. The average interruption takes about 5 minutes. So that's 5 hours of distraction in an 8 hour work day. Here's how I got distracted, why it happened and a system that you can use to guard your attention.

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Why You Don't Want to Live a Comfortable Life

For a decade now I have worked on being comfortable with being uncomfortable. I seek out discomfort on a daily basis. I like to live in a place I call The Discomfort Zone. Why? Why not be comfortable where I am? There are two reasons.

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The Most Powerful Skill I Didn't Get Taught at Med School

I spent £46,250 on medical school. But none of that money taught me the most important skill I have used to successfully navigate the world. Here are 4 key decision making concepts I wish I was taught 18 years ago.

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Too Much Choice is Killing Your Potential

Too much choice is killing your progress and productivity in life. But it doesn't have to be this way. The Bulgarian weightlifting team has the secret.

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Weekly Dose #012 How I Get Things Done

How often have you had a job on your “to do list” that sat there for days, sometimes even weeks? But you can stop torturing yourself now and start to get stuff done. The answer isn’t a new app or sophisticated organisation system. The answer, is in your brain.

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Weekly Dose #011 How To Be A Quiet Leader

Classic leadership training focuses on being outspoken and networking, typically extrovert features. Yet nearly half of all employees classify themselves as an introvert. I certainly do. Here are six steps to embrace your own nature and practice Quiet Leadership.

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Weekly Dose #010 How to Become More Resilient

We once believed that resilience is a fixed trait. You are either born with it or not. This belief is still held in the surgical community. We believe by definition, surgeons are resilient, otherwise they couldn’t be surgeons.

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Weekly Dose #009 Simplify Your Life with Systems

Have you ever wanted to start a new habit? But given up because it’s too difficult? This used to happen to me, until I learnt about the concept of “friction” and what it can teach you.

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Weekly Dose #008 How to Guard Your Attention and Set Up Interruption Barriers

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Weekly Dose #007 - Lessons From Death

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IT Solutions to Free Up Your Cognitive RAM as a Doctor

As you know, being a doctor can be incredibly demanding and time consuming. Between seeing patients, performing surgeries, and keeping up with medical research, it's easy to feel overwhelmed and disorganized. That's where applications and IT solutions come in.

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Weekly Dose #006 - 5 Tips For Procrastinators To Be More Productive