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if you've already spent years building a
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career the idea of doing something else
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being someone else can feel almost
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impossible for me walking away from
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medicine and starting a new career felt
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impossible medicine is more than a
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career it's a system that consumes you
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from the moment you step into medical
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school your life isn't yours anymore you
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give up your hobbies you sacrifice your
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time with family and friends you stop
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exploring other interests because the
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path to becoming a doctor is all
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consuming well at least for me that's
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how it was and that's the scary part
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about walking away because if medicine
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is all you know who are you without it
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dr armenia Ibara explains in her book
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working identity that we are trapped by
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our past choices but also by the
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expectations of those around us you see
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reinvention is difficult not because we
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lack the skills but because we resist
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stepping away from the identity we've
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already built and isn't that the truth
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for years you've been introduced as this
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is my friend she's a doctor people
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admired you for that they respected you
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for that and maybe you started to
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believe that if you do something else
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that you wouldn't be good enough well
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let me ask you this were you born
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knowing how to read ECGs or diagnose
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diseases were you born with a
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stethoscope in your hand no you became a
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doctor through years of learning
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discipline and experience and if you did
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it once you better believe that you can
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do it again because your ability to
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reinvent yourself has nothing to do with
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your job title and everything to do with
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the mindset that got you there in the
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first place so how do you start
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first you need to give yourself
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permission to not know the hardest part
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about leaving your current role is the
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uncertainty you don't have a
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step-by-step guide but here's the thing
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neither did you when you first started
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that career or when you first started
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medical school psychologist Dr carol
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Dwek known for her work on growth
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mindset explains "Becoming is a process
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the key to reinventing yourself is
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embracing the idea that growth comes
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from learning not from already knowing
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so instead of focusing on what you don't
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know yet start with what you do know
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what skills do you already have what
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kind of problems do you already love
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solving what do people already come to
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you for outside of medicine write those
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down because reinvention isn't about
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erasing who you were it's about taking
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what you already have and applying it in
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a new way and why is this so important
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because if you don't actively choose who
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you want to become next you might end up
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in another career that drains you just
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as much as the one you're trying to
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leave behind if you don't define your
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own path the world will do it for you dr
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bnee Brown said it best you either walk
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inside your story and own it or you
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stand outside your story and hustle for
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your worthiness so own this chapter
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reinvention isn't about losing who you
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were it's about becoming who you were
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always meant to be so let me ask you if
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you give yourself permission to reinvent
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yourself without limits who would you
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become you know what but too often we
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hold ourselves back not because we lack
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the ability but because we've
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internalized beliefs about what's
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possible for us but sometimes the
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greatest obstacle isn't the world around
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us it's the hidden bias
