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What Would it Look Like if This Was Easy?

#33・ Nov 8, 2020

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What Would it Look Like if This Was Easy?

By Mustafa Sultan • Issue #33 • View online

Friends,

This week, a readjustment.

Mulling over this week's newsletter

The Quality of Time

I used to (mostly) think of time as a commodity. One hour of time was one hour of time, regardless.

But this year, I’ve become increasingly aware of the quality of time.

One hour of time after a full day of hospital placement is pretty low quality.

I’m trying to maximise my time in the mornings before placement. But ultimately, there’s no getting around it. Medicine takes my best 5–6 hours Mon-Fri.

This has made me think two things:

How do people with families + careers get time to work on anything else!?
I need to negotiate less-than-full-time training as a doctor or I’ll never have enough time

Perfectionism

It’s easy to fall into the perfectionist trap. For my podcast, this meant:

1️⃣ Get great guests on and have great conversations

2️⃣ Try and get great sound

3️⃣ Post an episode once a week

This has become difficult. But instead of quitting, there’s a nice middle ground. By asking myself:

What would this look like if it was easy?

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1️⃣ Get great guests on and have great conversations

2️⃣ Try and get great sound

3️⃣ Post an episode whenever I want

So that’s what I’m doing. Making all of my projects as easy as possible until I can carve out more time.

Podcast

#035 The Clinician Scientist — Dr Joe Ledsam (Google/DeepMind)

‎How does a doctor start working for DeepMind/Google? 🤖 Joe Ledsam is a Clinician Scientist at Google Japan after formerly working at DeepMind. He’s worked on some of the most influe…

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#036 My Philosophy for Leadership and Success — Sir Bruce Keogh (Former National Medical Director)

‎Sir Bruce Keogh was National Medical Director for over a decade — leading clinical policy and strategy as well as being responsible for clinical leadership, quality and innovation. Sir Bruce was a celebrated cardiac surgeon prior to this, and during his tenure as Medical Director — he was most notab…

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All the best,

Musty

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