In live action , dr Pineset here with you guys going live early today . Today we're talking about your freedom . Juneteenth was last week , yay , juneteenth . And if you don't know , juneteenth is the celebration .
It's a weird holiday because it's the celebration of when freed slaves the last handful that didn't realize they had been freed , recognized and were informed that they were in fact free .
And that's a crazy concept to think about , that you were a slave , there were laws that made you free , but without your awareness of that freedom , you can't execute , you can't act on that freedom , and so that's crazy to think about .
What I put forth as I think about Juneteenth is that in working with so many students , we don't recognize the prison we put ourselves in , we don't recognize the shackles that we live every day in as students and as pre-meds and the things we carry out with a slave-like mentality , as opposed to exercising and recognizing the freedoms we have the freedoms of our
thoughts and freedoms . We have the freedoms of our thoughts and what we think , the freedoms of our emotions and what we feel and what we believe right , the freedom to act and to choose our actions wisely towards our goals .
And so today we're going to talk about this freedom and how you guys , as students , as pre-meds , need to wake up , recognize you are absolutely free , absolutely free , but your lack of execution and understanding your freedom is holding you back , keeping you from being the great student you could be . So can we hit the intro and get right into it ?
Let's hit the intro and we'll get right to it . Stop making excuses , stop whining , stop right , get at it . No excuses , stop whining , stop right , get at it . No excuses , just dominate . All right , guys . Dr Andre Pines , here , as always , it is about productivity , it is about positivity , it is about helping you guys reach your goals .
We are live action every Monday , every Wednesday , 4.30 pm , pacific time . Today we're going live a little bit early so that I can get to you guys early . I got an appointment tonight , but we're going to get at it right now . Now I mentioned the motivation for this stream is Juneteenth and if you , like I said , it's a crazy holiday .
If you're looking at Juneteenth , it is nuts to think that people have been free for a long , long time and just didn't realize it because they were still stuck in a slave mentality and a long , long time , and just didn't realize it because they were still stuck in a slave mentality and for you guys as students and as pre-meds , many of you guys are shackled to
things that aren't serving you right . You're being held down by old beliefs , old thoughts , old action patterns and you aren't exercising your opportunity to break free of that and to become a whole new and different person through your thoughts , through your actions and your life .
And one of these shackles that we're going to talk about as we go through this process that hold us back , is that we don't recognize we become victims right , the slaves to our circumstances . Where we come from , we become because of where we come from , where we've gone through what we've experienced before .
We become victims of these social expectations and , as a result , it manifests inside of us these limiting beliefs . And that's the first one we're going to hit , which is our freedom of thought . Did you know you were free to think whatever you want ? I know we say that all the time . We take it for granted . You are free . This is America .
You can speak freely , you can think freely , you can be a free thinker . And I think that a lot of people don't exercise their freedom of thought and I saw a , really , or I didn't see . I read a great book by Rick Rubin .
If you guys don't know who Rick Rubin is , he's a historic producer who did a lot of the early rap and rock in the 80s 90s , and he's a huge producer and he wrote this book . The book's a great read If you're looking for something fun to read and something also insightful , because you can learn from his life as a successful music producer .
But one of the things he talks about is his lack of education and how he didn't go and do college and do the traditional route that people do to become sound engineers and so forth . He just learned on the job .
How many people think that his lack of education was a disadvantage , but it may have actually been an advantage , and when I read that I was like , oh my gosh , I get it .
And what he goes on to say is is that when people go off to college or formal schooling , much of what school and education is is learning how things are supposed to work , learning about the rules of engagement , learning rules and another word for rules is restrictions .
And what he said what allows a lot of people who don't go the college route Steve Jobs , so forth , all these people to be so successful is actually the absence of that formal education , the absence of being introduced to rules , because if you don't know about rules , you can't be concerned about breaking said rules , and it frees you up to know about rules .
You can't be concerned about breaking said rules and it frees you up to think entirely different , entirely , uniquely , entirely , in an innovative fashion , so that way you can use that freedom of thought to come up with amazing things . And when I read that in that book , I was like man .
That's so powerful Because for me that's how I look at it is that when I entered undergrad I come from a disadvantaged background .
I am a black male , as we can see I didn't know what to do in college and , as a result , I fell into thought patterns of okay , wait a minute , here's what I'm thinking , here's what I'm thinking , here's what I'm thinking , this is what I'm supposed to do . And I fell into this pattern of thinking that this is all I was .
And because I was thinking that way , it limited my potential to perform effectively . And how powerful are our thoughts about our abilities and about what we can do in this world ?
It's so powerful and proven across the spectrum in a lot of different ways , and there's one great study that I love that illustrates the power of thought , and if we don't exercise our thought and our freedom to believe , we can be more is .
There's an experiment with fleas , and if you guys don't know about fleas , they're very strong for their size and they can jump really high , they can run really fast and so forth . They put these fleas in jars of different heights . Boop , boop , boop , right , one's this tall , one's this tall , one's this tall .
And when they put these fleas in different height jars , these fleas would jump to the top of the jar , jump to the top of the jar , jump to the top of the jar .
And then what was interesting was when they took these fleas that had lived in these jars at different heights and they put the ones that were in the smaller jar into a bigger space , they still could only jump as high as the first jar . What do we think about that ? Right , it demonstrates the power of when you have been trained to think .
This is my ability that you can't think that you could be more , you can't believe that you can be more . And in life you cannot believe that with which you do not , you cannot achieve that with which you do not believe in .
And so , for many of you guys , as soon as you're stuck in these terrible , negative , awful thought patterns where you recycle just how bad you are , just how disadvantaged you are , just how unprepared you are , all the badness that you have in your life , that's your thought pattern . And what happens , guys , what do we know about our thoughts ?
Our thoughts control our actions because , oh , I think I can do this , I think I should do this , because I will do this . I think I can't do this , I don't think I should do this , I think I should do this . Becomes , I will do this . I think I can't do this , I don't think I should do this , I don't want to do this . What does it become ? Inaction .
And so we manifest , we take our thoughts and they become our actions , and our actions become our outcomes . And so what I want you guys to do is to break free . Break free of these negative thoughts , break free of the thoughts patterns that are holding you back , and recognize you have the power to be totally different and you have the ability to want more .
I think that's another big thing , right ? It's like when we think about what we deserve , how many of you guys think that you don't deserve certain things . I can't tell you how many times every year I'm helping students apply to medical school and we'll sit down with their application . I'm like , oh man , this is like a lot of stuff you've done .
This is great . Okay , so what school are we thinking about ? Like , oh , I'm not really sure about applying to the Ivy league schools or to these top schools . I'm going to go for lower tier schools . I'm like , what are you talking about ? Why would you do that to yourself ? And they're like well , I just don't think . I don't think Don't reject yourself .
Make the med school reject you . Look at your things objectively . You've done a great job . Don't denigrate yourself that way . Don't degrade your accomplishments . Be proud of what you've done and believe in it and don't limit yourself , don't restrict yourself , don't reject yourself . You're amazing . You deserve that medical school acceptance .
So don't hold yourself back from that . And , as even for you guys , some of you guys are early pre-med . You're not applying yet . Maybe you're holding yourself back right now because you think you don't deserve medical school . You think , oh , you know what ?
I'm not going to get to medical school , so I'm not going to give my full effort , I'm not going to go for these things . I'm not going to go for this opportunity because you feel like you're not enough . So we have to change our thought freedom to think differently , to think better about ourselves and challenge how we think about things .
All right , you guys all still with me ? That's point number one . If you're still with me , like the video right now , let me know that I'm not here alone . Comment , let me know . Say , dr Pines , man , I appreciate you bringing this word today about me , because I have not been exercising my freedom of thought .
I've been thinking exactly what people tell me to think and exactly what I've always thought , and that I couldn't be more . The second point I want to make to you guys is that you have freedom of feelings and emotions . Man , man , man , man , man , man , man . How many times I can't tell you .
Students approach me and they talk about the fact that they have all these negative emotions . I have this , I feel this , and oh gosh . And they don't recognize that they have the ability to choose how they feel . Did you know that , that you have the ability to choose how you feel ? It's called emotional regulation .
Right , it's been a big popular buzzword for the last 15 years . Your EQ . We've all heard of the IQ , the intellectual quotient , but what about the EQ , the emotional quotient ? What is your emotional intelligence ? Your ability to recognize your emotion , to regulate , to augment and to shift your emotion ? And it's one of the skills I used to be a person .
I still call myself an angry person , but we have to recognize that our emotions don't have to control us . We can one change our emotion and B we can leverage our emotion towards different actions . And this is two different things . Let's talk about it . The first one is is we can change our emotion .
This is the harder thing to do , so let me start with the other one . Let's start with leveraging our emotions . So I mentioned I was an angry person . I was angry because I didn't have what other students had . I was angry because I didn't feel as smart as other students . I was angry because I experienced so much academic failures .
I was angry and that anger made me withdraw early on , because I would be envious of what they had I'd be jealous of , that I'd be upset about , and so , because I was angry , it would cause me to shut down and not fully engage with opportunities and with people , and it hurt my career early on and resulted in me almost getting fucking out of school .
Then I recognized why am I angry ? I'm angry because my career has gone wrong . It's gone wrong and I've experienced hurt , and so what I did was I flipped it . I said , okay , I'm angry , maybe I can't not feel angry .
But instead of that anger driving me to inaction and me actualizing my failure loop , I'm going to flip it and I'm going to take my anger and I'm going to use it like freaking fuel to fire me forward and I'm going to say , yeah , it hurt really bad , really really bad . When they looked at me like I was stupid , it really really bad .
When my counselor told me that I would never graduate college , it hurt really really bad . Those kids with popcorn read to me to see me stumble and fumble through the reading because I didn't read well , that hurt me and made me angry .
But instead of shutting down , I'm gonna use that anger to say I never want to feel that level of embarrassment , of shame , of disgust about myself again , and so I'm going to work so hard . So that way , because I'm angry , I want to see the sour look on those people's faces when I succeed in spite of them , when I pass them up .
And what's amazing , guys , when I flipped it that way , I was gosh darn angry . When I sit down and say I was angry , but it was functional anger that drove me to be more focused , to get more work done .
And what was awesome was it came full circle , because then all those things I used to fire me up and make me angry , I got to see on the other end , when I started succeeding , all the students who I thought were looking at me like I was dumb , whether they were or not shining what up Even though they I don't know if they were or is this my perception
right , because life's about perception I felt like they were looking down on me and so I was angry at them . All those same students who I felt like were looking at me like I didn't belong and like I was crazy .
You fast forward a couple months , all of a sudden I'm setting the curves , I'm doing well in my classes , and those same people are like , hey , how are you getting an A ? I thought you were , just they couldn't understand my A .
And so it went from me feeling like they were looking down on me to , all of a sudden , it felt like they were looking up to me and I was like , yes , and so it really , really , really , really really was awesome , not just to succeed , but to have those feelings reversed to where , like I'm not the inferior person , I'm the superior person and they recognize
that we all see my greatness . And so at first we want to learn to just harness our emotions in functional ways . That's the first thing . Then the higher level is that we can actually regulate and change our emotions , and there's a couple of steps we can go through . You guys want to talk about it , let's go through it .
The very first thing is that we have to not let our emotions blind us . The very first thing is that we have to not let our emotions blind us . Very frequently , people experience strong emotion sadness , anger , joy , delight , whatever , love , lust , whatever you want to call it . All these different emotions , strong , fierce emotions . These emotions can blind us .
They can take over and become the driver of our vehicle and we're riding passenger . Our logic , brain is riding passenger . Does everybody understand ? So the very first thing we have to do is to recognize that when we have strong emotions , they can take control . We have to be able to not be blind .
We have to be able to look and see oh my gosh , I'm having a strong emotion . So we have to be able to recognize I'm feeling something strong .
And then we have to be able to recognize I'm feeling something strong , and then we have to be able to pinpoint oh , it's anger , oh , it's a mix of anger and sadness , oh , it's feelings of hopelessness and despair , it's the feelings of depression , it's feelings of anxiety , whatever the feeling is , we have to recognize it .
Then , once we're able to recognize and see and not be blinded , recognize it . We then , once we recognize it , we then , once we recognize it , we must ask a second question . We must ask our first , I guess , question , which is so , I guess our first question is what is the emotion ? No-transcript , you guys should all be writing this down right now .
If you're following me right now , like this video , let me know you're seeing where we're going right now . First we're going to recognize the emotion , then we're going to quantify that emotion , we're going to categorize it and we're going to say is it helpful or is it hurtful ? If it's a helpful emotion , oh my gosh , I'm so excited right now .
Oh my gosh , I want to read today Yay , if it's a helpful emotion , we want to amplify it . Thank you , dijon , saying you see it , we want to amplify it . We want to increase that . If it's a hurtful emotion , it's causing us to shut down , we then need to minimize it . Okay , so we have to categorize it . That next step is the maximizing and the minimizing .
How do we do that ? We either . If you think about your emotions and I love this , it's from Tony Robbins Tony Robbins talks about thoughts and he talks about emotions as tables , and I love this analogy because it makes it so clear and obvious how we can change them . Imagine your emotions and your thoughts are tabletops . Okay , they're tabletops .
The tabletop only exists . What makes it a table is the four legs that support it . And so if we want to change , we want to break a table or we want to fortify a table , the way you do that is through the legs of that table . And so when we have a thought or an emotion and we recognize it as hurtful , we then need to chop out its legs .
And what are the legs ? The legs are all the evidence , true or false . Right , it's all perception , true or false , it's the legs that support that tabletop , that idea , that thought . And so , if I am a student and I'm feeling very depressed and hopeless about my academic career . That's my tabletop .
I then have to recognize that's a hurtful tabletop , so I want to chop it down . So now I'm going to look for the legs that support and have created that table . Maybe you're a student . I'll go back to me . Gosh , dang it . I'm so frustrated , I'm so sad . This is ridiculous . I've been sitting here for forever . I can't get this work . Blah , blah , blah .
That's the thought you have , right . So then I said okay , sadness is despair . How do I attack that ? What are the legs ? What are making me feel this way ? Well , I feel this way because always in the past I've done this . I've tried my best , I've worked hard , but it has not worked out and I've gotten bad grades . That's the first leg .
So then I say to myself okay , wait , it hasn't worked out in the past . But how does the past affect right now ? This is a new opportunity . Just because I flipped a coin and it landed heads doesn't mean if I flip it again , it's also going to land heads . I have an opportunity to change and to be different . Okay , boom , that's one leg .
All right , the next leg is well , shoot , I could change . I've said I'm going to change before , but I haven't changed . That's another leg . Well , wait , why didn't I change before ? I didn't have anything to change to . I said I was going to change and study differently , but I didn't know how to study differently so I couldn't change .
How many of you guys have wanted to change but you're like I don't know what else to do ? That's where getting educated about learning and studying and success comes in . I've done the heavy labor for you . I've created the course , the five pillars of studying less and getting Grades . I also have all my pre-med courses to help you with the pre-med process .
So , whatever you aren't informed about , if you want to change you don't know how to change I'm here for you . My website , premedproductivitycom . Get into a program . I'll coach you . You get video modules . We'll give you the tools to be different .
You'll have another option to change too , so that way you can say , oh , I can change Now that I want to change , I can , because I got something to change to . Maybe you say to yourself well , I'm just , I just , oh , this is just so much material , I shouldn't do this .
We're going to flip that leg and we're going to say , even though it's so much material . It's doable because other students before me have gotten through this class . So if I just sit down and I just work every single day and I say , okay , I got 100 pages , oh my gosh , so much . Well , how many days do I have to the final ?
And let's put these many days per day and let's break down the pages per day and let's chunk that big thing into a smaller chunk . So do you guys see what we're doing here ? We're attacking all the evidence that supports that we won't be successful and that are making us sad .
And by doing that we can bring down those sad feelings and we can replace those sad feelings with what ? Optimism , hope , excitement , perhaps even about our prospects of becoming great . And this is what I love about working with students and with pre-meds .
It's why it motivates me and drives me , because I love that light bulb moment when someone the light has been out in their house for a long , long time Ain't no power , ain't no electricity , it is dark , pitch black in this house because they have zero hope and then you provide a pathway . No , no , don't worry about that . This is how we're doing it .
Boom , boom , boom , boom . And you see the light come on like hope , dreams , potential . That's what I live for , that's what I love , and so that's what you guys can do for yourselves . And it's the same way with tabletops that are positive emotions . You can amplify them , magnify them , bring in more , fortify those as your default mode .
And so for me , yes , there are moments I have of sadness , moments I have of anger and irritation , right and stress , but then I chop away at them to quickly go from okay , yes , I could have been had a whole day long funk , but instead I had a five minute , a 10 minute , a 30 minute funk and I've reframed that emotion and I've gotten to a better place .
And now I'm back at it . I'm ready to go . Even now , before I came here today , it's been a crazy day for me at work . It was just a crazy day .
I had a couple of crazy parents and it's just , like you know , when people are combative with you and irritated because they're stressed out sometimes , even though you know I'm playing it cool with them inside , it can make me kind of like , ah .
So I was kind of at a low point and a lull At the end of my day I was like , oh , I'm exhausted , I'm tired , I'm frustrated having to deal with these people and I turned it around so I can come on here , live with you guys we're at minute 20 now of live to say no , I'm now going to be excited , I'm not going to be happy , because I can erase the
frustration that was today by doing something I love to do talking to students , working with students to get better . And so now I can create a happiness , emotion by building out these new legs . And so that's what we do . We recognize we're having a feeling , we categorize it up or down , right , hurtful , helpful .
Then we go to work , chopping at the legs or amplifying the legs to create the emotions we want . That's what we do , guys , and what's important about understanding that we have control of our emotions is that emotions , feelings , are not black and white , they're gray . It's a spectrum .
You only have to be positive enough or positive enough to act , or you only have to minimize your negativity enough to act , meaning you can still study if you're feeling sad . You just can't be overwhelmingly sad . You can still focus in and do well on your test if you're stressed or anxious . But you have test anxiety at your test .
But we want to reduce it enough to not be overwhelmed with anxiety . That's the separator . So we've got to bring it down to that threshold that we can tolerate . All right , that's point number two . Everybody still with me , everybody having a good day ? Yes , the courses are great . Thank you for saying that , sean . I appreciate it . Julian , what up ?
That was me a few days ago . I had a two or three day funk , very low energy . We got to snap ourselves out of it , guys . We can truly , truly snap ourselves out of our emotional state . And can I take a second there to even expand on that more ? As an anesthesiologist , I do this all the time .
All the time I'll be having an emotion , right , it's a high stress environment . I had a student the other day come shout out and they were freaking out because , oh my gosh , this kid . Clearly something bad was happening .
The vitals were crazy and I'm cool as a cucumber , I'm talking , I'm educating , as I'm doing some stuff , and they're like and they were so freaked out . This is kind of funny . I asked them and it wasn't urgent . I was like , hey , can you hand me the tape ? And they thought this tape was like . I was going to save the patient's life with this tape .
I was going to tape their whole body together . I don't know what they thought , but they were so freaked out they went to go run and they tripped and they fell and I was like , oh , and I'm like calm , calm , calmate . I could choose to be anxious and concerned . That's not going to help me In these moments as an anesthesiologist .
Being freaked out , that life is around the line doesn't help the patient , doesn't help me save the life , so I'm going to remain calm . That way I can focus on the task at hand and save the life . That's the separator . Does that make sense , guys ? So that is emotional regulation in action , saving people's lives , anesthesia style .
Okay , point number three Again , this is Dr Andre Pineset . Today we're talking about exercising the freedoms so you can unleash your potential as a student , as a pre-med . Point number three you have freedom of action . Woo , man , man , man , man , man , man .
I can't tell you , guys , again , one of the one of the great things about working with students is the ability to change their lives .
But one of the kind of crazy things when you work with students is you can't believe just how bad certain situations are for students and you can't like it's hard to find this belief about how a student has self-sabotaged themselves into such a huge hole , I'm like , why would you do this ? And they don't even recognize . I didn't know . I had a choice .
You have freedom of action , guys , and one of the biggest causes of students not to recognize their freedom of action is recommendations , is quote , unquote requirements . They will be given stuff . You'll start college and you're given hey , this is a sample , this is the recommended course load that you take throughout your journey .
You take these classes this year , these classes this year and so forth . This is what we recommend , this is what , and then students take that and they just do that without even thinking about wait a minute , does that work ? For me ? And I've had students . They'll be a freshman in college . They're handed a recommended class schedule .
You got chemistry , biology , you got an English , you got a humanities course , then you're taking labs for these two , and then you're taking this other research class to be able to get prepared for this . You're taking all these classes . Well , this is what was recommended to me . So my counselor put me in .
Yet this student , unlike the other students maybe in this class who took AP , biology or whatever , this student has never taken a chemistry class . They're new to this right . They're new to an advanced chemistry class . They don't have the background , the foundation , to do this . They're in a math class , they're in calculus , but they haven't taken algebra .
They're not ready . They haven't thought does this serve me ? They just go with the recommendations and , as a result , what happens , guys ? They get bad grades . They then feel like they're the bad student and they didn't recognize they could have chosen a different path and set themselves up for success .
And it was one of the best things I ever did , and I didn't even do it to my career . My mom helped me out and I'm so thankful . Thank you so much , mom , for doing this and I'm so thankful . Thank you so much , mom for doing this .
But she enrolled me in chemistry 1P and I went to UC Irvine and she enrolled me in chemistry 1P , which is preparatory chemistry . It's not even real chemistry . And I was like mom , this is my last summer before college , I don't want to take chemistry 1P . Why would you put me in that ?
And she's like because you said you want to go to medical school and you're going to take these hard classes . I saw the things that they want you to take . You've never done this and I'm like no , I'll be fine , don't put me in this class .
And it was like the best thing ever because it was an opportunity to slow myself into college and recognize that , holy smokes , I am not prepared for this academically . And so because of that that chemistry 1P I was able to go take that class and when I started in the fall I still took the recommended courses , but at least I had a stronger base .
And so actually what I thought was going to be my worst class actually going to be my best class . I got an A in chemistry 1A because I had taken chemistry 1P , which was half of chemistry 1A , so it gave me a jumpstart in that . So at least I had a positive start there .
And so for you guys , recognize that recommendations are just recommendations , you don't have to do anything . I see these with post-bac programs . All the time the post-bac program says , hey , you got to do this , this and this during the program . You got to be in our MCAT course , take the MCAT before you leave .
You got to apply right when you're done here and as a result of weeks ago in my live stream , all about how to be successful in postbac , so we should take that video out . But you guys have the option in your lives to do something different . You have the option to step away from what's recommended .
And in my career as a pre-med , I had so much fun as a pre-med , so much fun as a medical student , so much fun as a resident . I have so much fun as a pre-med . So much fun as a medical student , so much fun as a resident . I have so much fun as an anesthesiologist .
Now , because I recognize that just because something is the recommended action steps , I don't have to take those actions . As a pre-med student , you should be doing this and this and this and this and this and this . You got to do clinical volunteering . I tried listening to the recommendation . I went and did clinical volunteering .
I quit halfway through my first shift , hated it . They wanted me to change an adult diaper and I said , nah , I don't be changing adult diapers , I'm not with it . And so I recognized that opportunity was not for me , even though it was recommended and I quit that . And even though you might be like , oh my gosh , you quit clinical volunteering .
I had no clinical volunteering when I applied to medical school and I got to Stanford . How ? Because instead of wasting time rotting an experience I hated that was recommended to me . I diverted that time to doing more mentorship , to doing more working with students things that I enjoyed and as a result , I had a huge impact .
People wrote me nice letter of recommendation and all those kind of things and it offset and that's all you wanted to talk about when I applied to medical school was , man , you have a lot of teaching , a lot of mentoring . Do you love this stuff ? I do love that stuff .
And then guess what , because they saw I did an undergrad when I got to medical school at Stanford , they wanted me to continue to do this stuff and so I got to go talk at career days . I got to go do outreach . I got to go to the doctor for a days . I got to do all this great teaching and mentoring in my medical school track .
I got to work and do summer programs where we did outreach for disadvantaged students . I got to create MCAT curriculum for disadvantaged students . I got to build up all this stuff that I love to do . And then I got to residency Guess what y'all ?
Then it became on me and I started my own thing right , and I started being and having my website , pre-air Productivity , and I started going out and doing big , huge solo events where I'm doing 6,000 students , where I'm doing thousands of students in arena style things moving the crowd , where I'm activating with over .
I have over 50,000 students who have been in my online courses . That is impact and it all starts at all levels of getting to interact and do the things you want to do by looking at listen , this is the recommended step . I'm going to do something different . Right In medical school , you're going to do all these research ?
No , I'm doing what I want to do In residency . Oh , you need to do case reports . You need to do this ? Nah , I'm good , I'm going to do what I like to do . I like to have fun as an attending the normal process , what they had recommended for me to do after I graduated listen , a sociologist , we want you to work here at the university .
We want you to do these call shifts . We want you to teach . We want you to do this . I did that for a year the recommended action and I recognized man . I'm going to burn out this way because I'm working long hours . I'm doing all these things . It's zapping my joy because it's not what I want to be doing . I would much rather be working with students .
I'd much rather have the time to sit and talk with residents and medical students , and so I left that opportunity and now it's freed me up to be here with you guys at two something in the afternoon .
It's freed me up to be able to have residents , medical students , rotate with me and I can sit there all day and just talk to them exactly how I want , with no rush . The recommended actions are not the actions you have to take . Another big one for you guys is pre-meds is what ? Mcat , full-length tests .
How many of you guys preparing for the MCAT have been told a million times we recommend you take a million full-length tests , at least one full-length test a week and review it . I was just with a student who came and hung out with me for the day . We were talking about MCAT and I was like what is going on ? Why are you so stressed , frazzled ?
Oh , I just took a full length and I'm like whoa , why is he in a full length ? Well , because you know they say I said no , is that what I teach ? I'm like well , it's not what you teach . But you know , I heard that . I'm like no , no , you heard what . You have the freedom to choose what's going to work for you .
Full length tests are not helpful for the MCAT in general . Why ? Because they are not an advancement tool . They are not a readiness tool . They are an assessment tool . They don't help you get ready for the exam . They help you see if you are ready for the exam .
So if you spend a bunch of time doing full-length tests , all you're doing is confirming your suspicion that you're not ready for the MCAT and it turns out you're not going to be ready for the MCAT until you get close to your MCAT test date . So taking a bunch of full lengths two , three , four months out from your MCAT doesn't help you .
All it does is defeat you and make you frustrated , because obviously you're not gonna score high , because obviously that's why you have two , three , four months of prep is to get there . And so I know they recommend you guys do a whole bunch of full lengths .
But you have the option to change course , to have a different action and to go beyond that and do more . Yes , yes . So recognize you have the freedom to control what you do and the biggest freedom you can exercise in this world everybody listen to me the greatest freedom comes from self-control .
Being able to restrict yourself creates amazing freedom in your life , because if you can regiment and regulate , you can restrict yourself from doing things you're not supposed to do or that don't serve . You guess what you get ?
To spend all your time doing All the things that serve you , both professionally and moving forward towards your goals , and also personally , the things that fulfill you , make you feel good and make your life super , super fun . So the greatest freedom you can have is that self-restriction , that self-control .
So work on controlling yourself and deciding and opting into what you want to do . Exercise that freedom of action and knowing that I get to choose how I act , what I do . I don't have to act any other way . The last thing I'll say , then we'll get out of here .
If you guys still with me right now , you like this video , go ahead and give this video a like . Go ahead and give it a thumbs up , like Julie just did in the box . Young Richard said I'm still with you . Yes , thank you , I appreciate it . The last thing I'll say is that we all are our own person . You , singularly , are a singular organism .
Yes , you're part of society , part of a family , but you are a singular organism , and so you have the freedom . You have the freedom to be free from outside expectations . How many of you guys are being crushed under the weight of your parents' expectations of you ?
How many of you guys are being crushed , crushed by the weight of what you think other people think and expect of you ? One of the saddest things I ever experienced . I started college with a guy his real name's not important . I called him Peter Rabbit , and I called him Peter Rabbit because he was a super nerdy engineer guy , but he was super , super shy .
He didn't really talk too much . He reminded me of Peter Rabbit . I couldn't figure out why he was so he's a brilliant guy , why he was a super nerdy engineer guy but he was super , super shy . He didn't really talk too much . He reminded me of Peter Rabbit . I couldn't figure out why he was so he was a brilliant guy , why he was so quiet , so reserved .
It felt like he was in his own shell , like downtrodden you know what I mean Like the sad little Peter Rabbit , and I couldn't figure out why he was that way until one time his dad came to campus and his dad , even though this guy was getting better grades than I couldn't even imagine getting those kinds of grades at that time . I was almost walking out .
This guy's getting straight A's . His dad had access which is crazy off the bat to his college portal where he could tell his grades and stuff . His dad showed up to campus and he was upset . His son was an engineering major and his son had gotten a B or something like that in an engineering course . That was like super hard whatever .
He got like a B in it . His dad came up to campus and chewed this guy out like you are blah , blah blah and went off on it and he told him if you get another B , don't bother coming home . You're not welcome . He put all this pressure on him Fast forward .
A little bit time after that , peter Rabbit jumped off the top of one of the engineering buildings at UC Irvine , killed himself , and when it happened there was a . Oh my gosh , how this happened and when it happened I knew immediately why it happened . That conversation if you get another B , don't come home . Imagine the weight of that pressure .
And what's crazy is now that I'm a dad , I recognize that that dad just wanted the best for his son and saw all his son's potential , but he went about it totally wrong and , as a result , he crushed his son and literally killed his son with his expectations .
And for you guys , as students , I've had so many students tell me listen , I was this close to suicide before I met you , dr Pineset . Truly , I was this close to killing myself because of my bad grades . I was this close to killing myself because of my hopelessness .
I was close to killing me because I was so downtrodden about my parents and how they were going to look at me and the shame and the guilt I was going to feel like I was bringing dishonor to my family and they were able to turn it around . And for you guys , I want that . For you , I want you to , first and foremost , recognize you are your own person .
Don't ever let anybody else put the kind of pressure on you that drives you to feel bad about yourself , that drives you to hurt yourself , because you are a person of value and significance and whatever your accomplishment is like .
I tell my kids , if I were to call my kids in here right now , they would tell you , when they embark on any activity , any pursuit , whether it's school , academics , whether it's their athletics , whatever it is I tell them .
Hey guys , what's our rules , what's our three things for today , what we're doing when we get out here on this court or on this field , and they'll always say the same things . One we're going to try our best . So all I want is effort , not the outcome . I don't care if you win , lose , do you give your best . Two I want you to be aggressive .
Ah , we tigers . We're going to be aggressive , we're going to take it to it . I don't want things to come to us . We're going to give it our all and we're going to attack . Three we're going to have fun . If you didn't have fun , it's a failure . I don . And so for you , guys , I want you to take those three things Every single day .
Guys , I want you to just try your best . Be your best self . If you aren't your best self if you didn't give your all . That's something you should be saying about . Be aggressive , go for things , man , put yourself out there , and if you get rejected , you get rejected .
If you fall short , you fall short , but be aggressive , swing for the fences and if you do that , be proud of it . Right , I can remember many times I would see a beautiful woman and I'd say , hey , beautiful woman . You was beautiful , can we be together ? And she'd be like , no , we can't be together , you ugly .
And I'm like , oh , but it didn't hurt my feelings because I recognized hey , what if she had said yes ? And it turns out one day I was at a basketball game and I was sitting there and I saw this beautiful model Most people want to ever seen in my life . It was the woman of my dreams .
I've been dreaming about her for years and she was coming up the stairs and I saw her . I was like dang , that's my dream woman . I was like who man , who man ? I've been rejected a lot , but maybe she'll say yes . And I went up to her . I said , hey , I'm super suave . I was like , hey , girl , you're beautiful , you think me beautiful Like that ?
I did it super smooth . I was like how you doing Right , super smooth . And then , crazy enough , she gave me her number . And then we went on a date a couple of days later and that date was at BJ's , huntington Beach . I'll never forget it . It was supposed to be , like you know , at the lunch dinner . It went three and a half hours . It was so great .
I let my samples burn up in the lab . I had samples running while I went to lunch . I was like come back and get them . They were so good . I let my samples burn and then you fast forward , right ? You fast forward 16 years later and that woman is my wife . Dang what I did it ?
I was aggressive , I went for it , I gave her my best line and now she's my wife . I won . You guys can win too . You guys hear what I'm saying right now . You got a swing for the fences , baby , you just might win . I won , I won . And the third thing is have fun , y'all . You should be enjoying the process .
It is such a beautiful thing and an opportunity for you guys to recognize . You guys had the opportunity to experience higher education . You have the opportunity to read . Enjoying the process . It is such a beautiful thing and an opportunity for you guys to recognize . You guys have the opportunity to experience higher education .
You have the opportunity to read whatever you want to read . You have the opportunity to pursue being a doctor . That's awesome . Just the pursuit , the freedom to be like man . I can go , try to be a doctor . It's awesome . Be happy , have fun , enjoy that . You are feeding your brain , you are gaining knowledge . You are making something of yourself .
Have fun with the process , guys . Enjoy it . Otherwise , what are we doing ? Don't let your family put all that pressure on you . Don't let society put pressure on you . You're the only person who can judge you , and if you recognize that and realize that , we can take a breath and we can just go for it and have a good time .
All right , I appreciate you guys joining me today . Thank you so much . I hope this has been beneficial . If it has comment in the box , like this video , let me know . If you're watching this on the podcast , the Pre-Med Pro TV podcast , take a second and leave a review . If you want to change your life , you want to exercise full freedom .
You have the choice right now . You can end this live stream , you can sign off , say , okay , that was great . Dr Pines really rocked my world for 40 minutes , but I'm going to move on with my day and keep being the same me .
You also have the freedom to choose to be different , to change , to elevate , to transform your academic life , to transform your pre-med life . Put yourself on a path to get to medical school .
And the way you do that is you get to premedproductivitycom premedproductivitycom my website and you enroll in a program and you say , dr Pintek , coach me up , make me my dream . That's what you do . That's your choice today . Guys , have a wonderful day . I'll see you all next week every Monday , every Wednesday , 4.30 Pacific . I appreciate you , guys .
Thank you so much for joining me . How do we always end ? No excuses , just dominate . Guys . You have no excuse . We recognize we are free . We are not slaves to expectations . We're not slaves to negativity . We're not slaves to our bad previous actions . We are free to choose to be different . Make the choice right now to be different .
Guys , have a wonderful time and I'll see you next week , guys , later .