You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing.
I made every mistake that could be made.
But I just kept pushing.
--Rene Descartes

I haven't
failed.
I've just found
10,000 ways
that
won't work.
--Thomas Edison, American inventor

My resolutions for last year included a renewed emphasis on always doing my best. That practice allows me to go easy on myself when my best isn't the greatest. I did well on this resolution, especially when I decided to put my energies into doing the research that will allow me to be a good doctor, instead of simply doing what it took to pass my ( Read more... )

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May the beauty
of what you love
be what you do.
--Rumi

If medicine takes aim at death prevention, rather than at health and relief of suffering, if it regards every death as premature, as a failure of today's medicine - but avoidable by tomorrow's - then it is tacitly asserting that its true goal is bodily immortality... Physicians should try to keep their eyes on the main business, restoring and ( Read more... )

Strategy is scarcity’s child
and to have a strategy,
rather than vague aspirations,
is to choose one path
and eschew others...
--Richard P. Rumelt

Awakening
is a shift in consciousness
in which thinking and awareness
separate.
--Eckhart Tolle

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I recently started following Seth Godin's blog and have been enjoying it. Today's email missive is On pricing power at http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2011/02/on-pricing-power.html. It helps clarify a goal for my approach to my business: ( Read more... )