“When you’ve done well and another has benefited by it, why like a fool do you look for a third thing on top—credit for the good deed or a favor in return?” ~Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 7.73 “When you give to someone in need, don’t do as the hypocrites do—blowing trumpets in the synagogues and streets...
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When you see anger… train yourself to look for pain.
https://youtube.com/shorts/R8oqlgWizG8?si=DYXv8hG6PLmI5pUH “Anger is often what pain looks like when it shows itself in public.” – Krista Tippett – Book: I Don’t Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression by Terrence Real
Quote and book recommendation…
‘We must understand that justice is not this thing we demand of other people but something we demand of ourselves.” ~Ryan Holiday Book: Right Thing, Right Now, Good Values. Good Character. Good Deeds Concept: “Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.” ~Marcus Aurelius
Sometimes, the people you always thought would be there won’t…
but also people you never expected to be there will.
Remembering and forgetting
Paul M. Michaud MD, CPE It is not true that you remember everything… But too often we remember the things we should forget and forget the things we should remember. Categories
Mastering the art of error…
Paul M. Michaud MD, CPE Here is a mindset shift I learned in my radiology residency… We tend to remember the things that go wrong more than we remember the things that go right. Think back to when you took a test, and immediately after the test, you began looking up the answers to the...
You are the biggest risk to your future is…
Paul M. Michaud MD, CPE “The biggest risk to your future is not your competition. It’s the distractions you insist on keeping in your life rather than doing the things you know you should be doing… but aren’t. People delay doing what they don’t like for longer than it takes to do them.” Here a...
If it is important… it is today.
Paul M. Michaud MD, CPE Your problem is you think you have time. You can always wait until tomorrow… until you can’t. It is unlikely that tomorrow will be better than today, and often, that thing you are putting off does not get better with time… but worse. It is also possible that tomorrow may...
When a deep injury is done to us…
Paul M. Michaud MD, CPE Remember… sometimes the person you most need to forgive for inflicting that injury is yourself. Categories
Some problems are solutions to deeper problems…
Paul M. Michaud MD, CPE We all develop strategies to navigate our world. Sometimes those strategies served a necessary role to protect us as children or perhaps even as adults, and they serve as our guardians. Often however it is those same strategies that persist most strongly even when the need for such protection is...