Are you a busy pre-med , then you need to watch this video to get your life back in control and stop being busy and start being productive . Let's hit the intro and get right to it . Alright , guys ? Dr R Jephine said these study documents always I'm here to do what ?
Help you be more positive , help you be more productive in your pursuit of medical school , grad school , pre-health professionals . This is your spot , this is the place to be , and I'm here to help you . And today we're talking about the difference between being busy and being productive .
So many of you guys , as students , particularly pre-meds , pre-health students you just feel so busy all the time . Is that you , if it is comment in the box , let me know ? Say busy in that box , let me know that you are a busy pre-med ? And what's crazy is we get so used to being busy as pre-meds that many pre-meds wear that as a badge of honor .
They say I'm busy , I'm doing this , I'm doing this , and they brag about how they're running here and they're involved in this and all these things . And what I want to say to you guys now is someone who's on the other side of the process right , I was a pre-med . I was in the same mindset as many of you guys .
Right , I cleaned it up , streamlined my process , I got into Stanford Medical School , dominated Stanford Medical School . I've been helping students for almost 20 years now .
One of the top downfalls for pre-meds is that they get spread too thin , they're doing too much , and the reason this happens is because , as pre-meds guys , we recognize that it takes a lot to get into medical school and we want to make sure , because when you say you're a pre-med , you tell everyone I'm going to be a doctor and so everything is riding on you
becoming a doctor and that pressure starts to build and you feel like you have to do more and more and more to get into medical school . And that's a falsity . Who's heard the expression Jack of all trades , master of none ? Medical schools don't want jacks of all trades . They want well-rounded students .
But they want students who have shown that they are excellent in one or more areas . They want students who have made an impact , who have made a difference , who move the needle and the world is better for them , having been on this planet . If you are out here doing 50 million different activities , you're in this club , you're in that club .
You do this volunteering , multiple labs , all these things . You don't have time , you don't have energy to make an impact , to make a difference , and it's the difference makers who get into medical school . Think about it this way You're in a club , you're in this club , you're a member of this club .
Do you think being a member of a club is impressive to medical schools , truthfully , if I said , hey , I'm a member of Flying Samaritans , is that impressive to medical schools ? Absolutely not . So then my follow-up question is then why do you think it's impressive to medical schools that you're a member of five clubs , of 10 clubs of all these different societies ?
They don't care about that , because there are no participation trophies for medical schools . They don't reward you for being there . They reward you for mattering , for making a difference while you were there . So , instead of just being a member , instead of even just being a president right , empty title what do you actually do as president ?
What do you actually do as a member of this club ? How have you enriched the club , how have you enriched your campus ? How have you enriched society through this experience ? That's the external , the internal . How have you grown ? How has this experience meant something to you , professionally , personally , interpersonally ?
How have you grown in this experience to be more of that doctor that medical schools are looking for . That is the difference , guys , that's the separator , and so I encourage all of you guys , as we move through right , to prune your activities . There's a lot of guilt right .
We're supposed to do more and more and more , so there's all this guilt about either burning bridges or not having enough stuff on your resume if you quit things . But I'm here to tell you it's important to prune and prune aggressively and regularly as you go through your pre-med journey , to say is this thing something I should be doing ?
Is this something that's moving me closer to my goal ? Even better question is this the best use of my time , whether that's four hours or eight hours ? How much time you're spending every week ? Is that activity the best use of your time ?
Or could those hours be better served somewhere else to make more of a difference , to help you improve more , to learn something new , to grow ? If the answer's yes , cut that out . It's not okay to be over . It's an okay activity . It's gotta be the best activity for you . And that's a personal thing .
But you've gotta be thinking about it critically Because , as a pre-med , like I said , there's always pressure to do more and more and more , and so all these things look shiny , right ? I think , oh , that's a new thing , oh , it's a new lab , oh , the grass always greener . It's a shiny object to grab onto , but it's like one of those angler fishes .
My son loves angler fishes . One was angler fishes with the bright light . Like , was it Nemo ? Like , ooh , look at the bright light and all of a sudden these sharp teeth come out and they bite your head off . And that's what happens . A lot of you guys' med school hopes , right , because you're out here , look at these shiny objects .
Next thing , you know , you're slipping , you're stumbling , you're spread too thin , overwhelmed , and you're underperforming . Overwhelmed , underperforming . That's the combination . If you are underperforming because you're overwhelmed , if you feel overwhelmed , you are gonna be underperforming . They go together . So what I tell you to do is remove that overwhelm .
Simplify , say you know what ? This activity doesn't bring me joy , this activity doesn't bring me growth , this activity doesn't bring me opportunities to make an impact .
So I'm cutting it loose to make more room for my other activities , so that I have more time , more energy and more focus to give to those activities that are actually gonna move me forward towards medical school . As you watch this video , guys , it's not a passive channel . This is an active channel where we get better and we do actionable things .
What I want you to do right now is take a second , close your eyes , close them and ask yourself what is the worst part of my week ? What am I involved in that I hate going to ? What am I involved in that I think is a waste of my gosh darn time ? What do I dread ? Everything you dread everything you hate going to .
Everything you feel like is a waste of time . I want you to drop it immediately and politely . Right , send a nice email . They'll let you know I'm gonna be transitioning out . What does that timeline look like ? How can I help you find a replacement and so forth , but get out of the activity as soon as you can ?
All the while , I want you to ask yourself hmm , how could my week be better ? What could I be involved in where I have a unique skill set that I could actually bring something to ? What can I get involved in that I have experience going back on ? That way I can not come in at the novice level . I come at a higher level and really make a difference .
What opportunities out there would make me feel good in my heart that me being there mattered . What can I do ? And the example that I'll give you guys and I'll get out of here and I'll be done . I'll end this video real quick . If you're enjoying this video so far , like the video right now , let me know .
Dr Pintz , I appreciate you saying this because I felt that pressure . I appreciate you leaving that pressure of do more , do more , do more and telling me , hey , do a little less to actually do more . Less activities , more impact .
But I had a student who was really into yo-yoing and was involved in all these different activities and I was like , buddy , you love yo-yoing , do that ? Like well , how can I do that ?
And so this student actually put together a yo-yoing program for elementary schools where he would go and show them yo-yoing as an alternative to getting involved in drugs and smoking .
And so it was like a dare campaign , like a mini-dare campaign essentially , where he was out making impact with these students and the medical schools when he applied , loved it because it was something unique , it was him making an impact , it was him using his personal experience and something that no one else could do . He was doing it .
He was applying it in a novel and different right , a distinct way that medical schools weren't used to seeing , and so it was super impressive to them . And he got into a bunch of medical schools because of that right and having good everything else , but that was a major feather in his cap for his application .
So I encourage you to do the same Find your passion , make the impact , grow , get better and get into medical school . If you have any questions , guys , I'm always available . Take a second , leave a comment , question , ask me and if you're ready to get better and get expert advice , get to my website premedproductivitycom .
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