Productivity Keystone Habits In Atomic Habits James Clear writes about Keystone Habits - small choices that lead to a cascade of other actions. For example, when he and his wife get home from work, they either
Productivity How removing options makes me more productive I woke up this morning at 6:15 and, as usual, I was pretty groggy and tired. At that point, as usual, the Resistance started whispering to me - “You went to the
Productivity When my to-do list piles up, I use this productivity trick At the start of this week, I found myself feeling a little overwhelmed. I’d been on holiday over the Christmas period, and on returning to the UK I had two back-to-back weeks
Money How I make money in the stock market A chap called Jack Bogle died last week, at the age of 89. You may not have heard of him. He founded a company called Vanguard and introduced the world to ‘index funds’
Happiness The £5 item that made my student life much happier One of the best purchases I made at the start of my university days was a doorstopper. Whenever I was in my room during waking hours, I’d leave the door propped open
Productivity How to be Excellent On the flight home from Sudan this week, I read an absolutely wonderful paper from 1989 called The Mundanity of Excellence - An ethnographic report on stratification and Olympic swimmers. The author breaks
Life Advice A rule to follow in new situations I’m writing this post from a small town in Sudan where some other doctors and I are helping out with a medical mission running pop-up clinics in local villages (PS: check out
Productivity Average Speed vs Maximum Speed Short post today - just wanted to share a great article that I came across this week. It’s by one of my new favourite non-fiction authors James Clear (who wrote the book
Productivity A simple trick to making New Year's Resolutions stick You’ve probably heard about how most people don’t end up sticking to their New Year’s Resolutions. They buy gym memberships in January, go a handful of times and then stop
Life Advice A piece of advice given to kids with serious illnesses This week’s ‘how to do life’ post comes from my friend and housemate Dr Molly Hunt. She volunteers each year at Over the Wall, a summer activities camp for children with serious
Productivity You should get a Kindle If there’s one thing I’d recommend you buy/request as a gift over the Christmas period (or anytime really), it’s an Amazon Kindle Paperwhite. This is not a sponsored post
Life Advice Say yes to everything I came across some advice during my early university years that really helped me develop as a person. It went something like:When you’re early on in your career/life, say yes
Productivity What do I wish I’d been doing consistently for the past 3 years? A few things immediately come to mind. Firstly, music - I wish I had consistently and deliberately practised piano, guitar, singing and music theory over the past 3 years. If I had, I’
Happiness How many sales will make you happy? Some friends and I recently launched an online Interview Crash Course that helps prepare medical school applicants for their interviews. A few days ago, one of my friends who helped create the course
Life Advice How to minimise regrets I got an email a few days ago from a high school student in the Philippines (let’s call him Matt) considering applying to medical school. He was worried because it’s such
Productivity The Parable of the Mexican Fisherman I want to share this fun little story with you today. I stumbled across it a few years ago and it had an immediate impact on me, changing the way I view productivity
Productivity The Beginner's Mindset A couple weeks ago I sent an email asking you guys to send in snippets/quotes that have helped you in your own life. This week, I want to feature one of the
Productivity A simple change to my nighttime routine I want to talk about a simple change I made to my nighttime routine that’s changed the game for me. It came about after I skimmed through ‘Why we sleep’ by Matthew
Productivity "I'm not very good at languages" The other day, someone asked me whether I’d ever make a video about how to learn languages. I replied with ‘nah probably not, I’m not very good at languages’.I then
Productivity Journey before destination Life before death. Strength before weakness. Journey before destination.This is one of the ideals of the Knights Radiant, as told in Brandon Sanderson’s incredible The Stormlight Archive (I’m halfway through
Productivity Force yourself to start If you want to start something, don’t wait, just start. Writing a personal statement or an essay? Great, just start typing and force yourself to write something. It doesn’t matter if
Overthinking I want to share a story today.As some of you might know, I’ve recently started my first job as a junior doctor (we’re now around a month into it). Naturally
Study Changing direction A few months into my 4th year of medical school (ie: the first clinical year), I remember talking to one of the consultants on the ward. He asked our group what we wanted
Be content to be thought foolish Here’s a quote from one of my favourite Stoic philosophers, Epictetus:If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.This fear of being thought foolish lies at
Productivity What pencil do you use? You’ve probably heard of Stephen King. He’s like, the world’s most best-selling author of all time. He apparently attends lots of writers conferences where he does Q&As. Sometimes,
