TMRW/TDY
Ideas of TMRW to enhance your TDY
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Hey Reader,
⏀ Emotional Athletes – FOMO, mid-life crisis, trauma, work-life balance and more – all of these characterize life. David Brooks of the NYT eloquently argues that navigating life’s challenges requires being an emotional athlete (as opposed to just emotional intelligence). And yet, our schools, our economy, and our jobs are oriented around the brain as a logical machine. Physicians know the limitations of this paradigm better than most. Choice quote:
We’ve always known that emotion is central to the art of human connection (which is not to say that we’re always good at it). Now we understand that emotion is central to being an effective rational person in the world.
And yet most of us are emotionally inarticulate. If you are going to hire, marry, befriend, manage or coach people, shouldn’t you know their core affect, the emotional base line they carry through life? Shouldn’t you know their emotional profile, the distinctive way they construct emotions in diverse circumstances?
💡Used effectively, emotions can actually enhance your logical thinking
⏀ Starbucks problems – A new CEO (from Chipotle), rising prices and lower sales all spell trouble for the venerable coffee brand. As noted VC Chamath points out in this short clip, the rise of processed food awareness and perhaps even ozempic poses a different problem for them: ==}
💡GLP1 agents continue to re-shape the economy and our society in powerful ways. All companies need to ask themselves 2 questions: 1) What business am I really in? 2) What business should I be in?
⏀Quote of the week- “We are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living. We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma, and we are willing to work very hard to get a job, a car, a house, and so on. But we have difficulty remembering that we are alive in the present moment, the only moment there is for us to be alive.” Thích Nhất Hạnh
💡Delayed gratification has its benefits but keep your attention on the present moment. Being mindful is not an end goal per se, but the result of using your focus appropriately.
⏀ Idea I’m mulling – I realized I’ve been living a life of avoidance. We all avoid things – looking at the scale, our bank accounts, the calorie labels on the back of that box of cookies. We avoid people, we avoid our past. Mostly, we avoid ourselves – and in doing so, we stay safe, but also trapped. Unhurt but numb. It contributes to the sense of being stuck, of living shadow lives in the name of pleasure, prestige, or profits. As Steven Pressfield, one of my favorite authors, notes:
What are we afraid of? We’re afraid of growth. We’re terrified of exposure. Remember, nothing scares the crap out of us more than advancing, because to advance is to move from the known to the unknown.
💡What are you avoiding ? Why? How can you move one step toward it and reclaim your power?
⏀ AI in healthcare – We’ve talked extensively about AI in healthcare. The WSJ talks to new chief of AI in healthcare at Kaiser Permanente about what AI can and cannot do in healthcare.
💡We are heading towards a two tiered system with the AI have’s and AI have nots. Rural and safety net hospitals – and their patients – are being left behind our digital future
