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 Wellness
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…
The Imposter is Among Us
“I got lucky” “I only passed because the examiner liked me” “Everyone else seems to understand this better than me” “I will never be as good as them “It was easy; anyone could have done it” “I’m just pretending to…
Foundations of Wellness: A Scientific Guide to Self-Care
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining John F. Kennedy As we approach the end of another long year which is 2023, one cannot help but reminisce that it has been one that threw us…
How To Fail: A Starting Point
I performed dismally at the beginning of my third year of medical school. This came as no surprise because writing those exams was one of the most challenging tasks of my life, I had an overwhelming sense of impending failure…
The Dunning-Kruger effect: Why it’s normal to feel unprepared for an exam
“The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don’t know” Albert Einstein Safia, Wepukhulu, and Karimi have an upcoming anatomy exam. Safia, who has been struggling with the material, has low confidence in her ability to perform…