My personal journey with mindfulness
The unexamined life is not worth living Socrates A month ago, I had a nagging urge to shift my life in a different direction. I felt my life was greatly misaligned with my goals, and that I wasn’t as productive…
Category Productivity
How to Plan Your Week
Planning is a highly effective way to increase productivity. Weekly planning is better than daily planning since it is close enough to be relevant but distant enough to show the bigger picture. I recommend taking 20-30 minutes alone before the…
Impression Management: how confidence and first impressions can earn you a positive bias in your clinical years
Impression management, also called perception management, refers to the conscious or unconscious attempt to influence other people’s perceptions through regulation or control of information in social interactions. The concept behind impression management was brought forward by Erving Goffman in 1959…
Time Management: Tips for Balancing Work, Study, and Social Life
It is often said that one of the most important resources in the world is time. It is equally precious as it is limited. Therefore, it is easy to feel like 24 hours each day is not enough, especially as…
Mastering Learning: The Feynman Technique’s Genius Approach to Active Learning
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius—and a lot of courage—to move in the opposite direction. E.F. Schumacher The Feynman Technique is one of the best ways to approach…
1% each day
Success is a few simple disciplines, practised every day; while failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day” Jim Rohn The idea of ‘1% each day’ reflects the Swahili saying ‘Haba na haba hujaza kibaba’ – meaning…
Open minds, Open access: The importance of FOAM
Medical education has a heafty price tag on it making it unattainable to passionate clinicians and students, especially in developing countries. Traditionally, the framework would be to read expensive books and cutting-edge journals, and attend conferences in order to stay…