Everybody . We are live action . What is up , y'all ? We are a little bit late today , hour and a half we scheduled later than normal , because normally we're 4.30 , but we're going late a little later because I was in the OR . Dr Pintet here , the pre-med project expert , and today we're talking about trustworthiness .
Are you a trustworthy college student , are you a trustworthy pre-med ? I'm gonna ask you that question . I'm going to hit the intro and then we're going to get into building that trustworthy being able to rely on yourself and having others rely on you . Let's get into that y'all right after this intro .
But stop making excuses , stop whining , stop right , get at it . No excuses , just dominate . All right , guys . Dr Pines , here , the pre-med project expert , as always , we're about positivity . We right guys .
Dr Pine said here , the pre-med project expert , as always , we're about positivity , we're about productivity , and today we're talking about trustworthiness , and I love this topic . I was thinking about this as I had a conversation with a student earlier this week and they're trying to prepare for their MCAT and I'm talking to them .
I'm like , hey , we go through all these steps , I'm telling you what to do , but I can't trust you to execute . And they're like what ? You can't trust me to execute . I said , yeah , I can't trust you to execute on what I tell you . I said , worse , you can't even trust you to execute and follow through .
And so , for so many of you guys , this is the issue and this is why we have the anxiety . This is why we have the hopelessness , this is why we have the despair , this is why we feel overwhelmed . Right , it feels futile to work when you know your work won't result in the outcome you want .
It's like , why chase it , why even give that effort if it's not going to turn out ? It's why so many of us quit on our dreams because we can't rely on ourselves , we can't trust on ourselves to show up , act accordingly , right , do what we're supposed to do . To persist when things get difficult , yes , right . To focus in on the task and not get distracted .
And to follow through until when , until it's finished , until it's completed and not just done sloppily , but executed at a high level . And so for so many of you guys , how many of you guys , as pre-meds , as students , are you trustworthy ?
If I were to ask you straight up I asked this student earlier this week can you trust you to show up , show out right and get the outcome we're live , so I'll wait . This is an interactive session Comment right now . How many of you guys feel like you know what I can really trust myself to get the job done ? Because we talk about this all the time .
Right , I hear people all the time oh , you know , I don't trust the government . Oh , they're after me . Oh , you know these med schools , the crafty algorithms , da , da da . I don't trust this person I'm in a relationship with . How many of you guys are trustworthy ? How many inspire that trust in other people ?
And this is such a powerful thing , guys , because , as we constantly say , you cannot believe that with which you do not right . You cannot achieve that with which you do not believe . And for many of you guys , you don't trust yourself and it shows and , as a result , other people can't trust you . How does it play out for you guys as students ?
Well , let's start here . How many of you guys as pre-med students ? Why is this trustworthiness so important ? So many of you guys right the opposite of self-trust and self-accountability . Self-reliability is what Self-doubt ?
Most of you guys walked around cloaked cloaked in self-doubt , cloaked in self-doubt and I was in church last week two weeks ago , actually , it was not this past sermon , but sermon two Sundays ago , and the pastor was talking about how you have to read the word of the Lord and cloak yourself in an armor of the word of the Lord , and I was like dang , that's
a deep metaphor . That's what I'm trying to do for you guys as students is arm you in the armor right of confidence , the armor of a highly skilled individual , the armor of knowing and the persistence , the determination to say listen , I will never quit . No excuses , I will dominate , I will keep my goal . And that's what happens here .
Many of you guys are cloaked in the wrong armor . You're cloaked in a shield . You're cloaked in a shield . You're weighted down with self-doubt . I want you guys to have trust in yourself , have that self-trust . And how does it play out ? Well , it starts with how many of you guys , as students and as pre-meds , quit before you even get started .
Who knows what I'm talking about . How many of my false starters are out here where you say listen , I want to do this , I want to go to medical school . So if I'm going to medical school , I've got to take these classes , I've got to do these curriculars and so forth , and then opportunities arise oh , this class is being offered .
Oh , this club is up , for they're looking for a president , and then you don't even attempt to go get it Right . The most common thing I see from students is like oh man , I don't have any money . I need money for college . College is crazy expensive now .
And there's all these scholarships out there and I can't tell you how many students don't even apply to the scholarships . Oh , I'll never get it . I'll never get the scholarship . Oh , I'll never apply for that research fellowship because I'll never get it .
How many of you guys quit before the race even starts because you have too much self-doubt and you don't trust yourself to be the qualified candidate . You don't trust yourself to be acceptable , you don't see yourself as worthwhile . So how could others possibly want you in their program ? How could others possibly want to give you a scholarship ?
How many of you guys quit before you even get started ? And I say this all the time the only time you don't get into medical school is when you quit on yourself . And for many of you guys as pre-meds , you never even get out of the start block , you false start , because you don't have enough confidence .
You don't have enough belief , you don't have enough hope , enough optimism in yourself that you will show up and do the job or that other people will see you as that reliable person . So you don't even go for things . You got to go , y'all . You got to go , go , you gotta go . Being successful takes huge leaps .
Getting to medical school is not for the faint of heart . Right , we have to have excellent accomplishments . We have to be the exception , not the rule . Right , we have to be exceptional .
How can you be exceptional if you don't push yourself , if you don't stretch yourself past your limits , if you don't see what the end of your potential is , if you don't say I could be more than this , if you don't say I could be more than this , if you are just what you are , how could you ever be great ? And as pre-meds , it starts with your studying .
How many of you guys , as students , study the way you study because you've always studied that way ? And how many of you guys , as students , get crappy results ? You don't get the grades you want . Yet what do you keep going back to time and time again ?
You go to cheesy hacks , superficial tips that make you feel better for a day , and then you recognize and you realize that this superficial stuff can't change the deep-seated issues you have as a student , right ? And then what do you do ? You say , oh , this isn't working .
I'm gonna go back to being and doing the old stuff that I'm used to doing , because , even though it doesn't get me the A , at least what . What do we say ? At least it feels good , it feels comfortable , right , I'm just going to go to lecture and I'm going to sit there with the PowerPoint . I'm going to be confused the whole lecture .
I'm not going to ask questions oh my gosh . I'm not going to pre-read , because reading is hard , is difficult . How many of you guys are scared to go for it , scared to commit to saying you know what ? I could be a better student . But to become a better student , you know what ? That takes effort . Am I scared of hard work ?
Literally , I can't tell you how many times students tell me they'll be like Dr Pintel . Run up to me at a conference or I'm out speaking at an event . Dr Pintel , oh my gosh , your keynote was amazing . Listen , I need your help . Everything you were talking about I'm going through . I doubt myself . My studying's all over the place . I procrastinate constantly .
I think I might have ADHD undiagnosed ? Oh my gosh , I need your . Hey , no problem , I got a comprehensive program . It's called the Five Pillars of Studying let's Get Better Grades . It comes with dozens of hours of on-demand lectures . It also comes with live coaching with me , where you can ask me any question you have . We can tighten up any issue you have .
We can fix it and make you incredible . Here we go , get it . Here's a discount code . And do you know what so many students say to me ? Oh , dr Pines , you said dozens of hours of content . You said I got to show up to coaching . Wait , you do two , three hours of coaching at a time . No , no , no , no , no , no .
I just need you to tell me something right now I can do that can change me . And I just smile and I walk away . I don't even engage with it because you know what that is . That's you not trusting yourself to follow through and commit and do the work . That's the fear you have that .
Oh , if I enroll in this program , I'm going to be like the 80 something percent of people who enroll in a program or a course who don't complete it . Think about that , guys . I'm like wait , you say you're too busy to go through dozens of hours of lecture . You're too busy sucking , you're too busy feeling good while you don't get the grades you want .
I don't understand . You're too busy to get good . You're too busy being bad to get good . That makes no sense . But what it shows is you don't have the trust in yourself to be something better , to do something new . You don't trust yourself If you want to become an accessible student .
I had to go out on a limb and say yes , I am a first-generation college student . Yes , I do feel like an imposter . Yes , as a matter of fact , I am gosh darn dumb , but I trust myself . I know I may not be the smartest , I may not have the most talent , I may not have the most resources , but I do trust myself to work my ass off .
I do believe in myself that my work ethic is strong . The problem and I recognize this is I've been trying to work hard academically . My dad's best advice my college flunk out . Dad's best advice . My dad , seriously , my dad flunked out of college . His advice to me and I listened to it . As he went off to college he said son , college is easy .
Try having a job . You get in there , you work hard and you get those grades . That's what he told me . So I went off to college like I'm going to work hard , and I was head down working hard , long hours , all kind of stuff , and at the end of the day , what happened ? Y'all , I'm flunking . I'm repeating the pattern .
I'm listening to someone who flunked out and I almost found myself flunking out of college . I had to look at that and say , wait , working hard is not sufficient . I have that work ethic , but how about I redirect that work ethic ? Instead of trying to put in long hours , instead of trying to crush the material , how about I put that focus into my development ?
What if I believe , and I trust my work ethic , and I believe and I trust myself to get better ? Hmm , and I trusted myself , guys , and I put the effort in , I put the work in , and it didn't take as long as I thought it would , it turns out . But I started studying , studying . I started studying learning .
I started studying what my habits were doing to me , how my habits were crushing me each and every day . I flipped the script and by doing so , I became the successful student , the A student y'all .
And not only did I become the A student , but the best part is when we trust ourselves enough to change , to modify what we're doing , to try to work smart instead of doing what we've always done and working hard . What happens is we become more efficient , we become more effective . We're a sharpened tool Instead of trying to cut the steak with a butter knife .
We become the . We're like Salt Bae Baby . We slicing that meat up , we slicing our classes up . Come , we're like Salt Bae baby , we slicing that meat up , we slicing our classes up . That's what I became . And so I got the A's , but I got them only two hours a day . Total , that's 10 hours total a week . I did five days , two hours a day .
That includes I didn't go to lecture , I didn't need lecture , I was better than lecture . All of a sudden , because I changed , lecture became inefficient , became a time waste . Who needs a teacher ? I'm my own teacher , my own instructor , and I got the A's .
I went to Stanford and I loved medical school every second of it , because I was crushing cats there , because I had the systems . I trusted myself enough to change .
And here's the cool thing , guys when we trust ourselves enough to believe we could be more , when we trust ourselves enough to put the work in and be more is , you then can develop the trust in yourself to say I'm not only just going to be better today , but each and every day I'm going to get better , I'm going to elevate , and you trust yourself to never
stop your improvement . And so , for me , right , one of the great books that changed my life is Awake of the Giant Within Tony Robbins and his philosophy . His mantra became my mantra . It was K-N-I , c-a-n-i , constant and never-ending improvement . And when he said that , when he wrote about that , it hit me so deep and I recognized that's what I trust in .
I can't trust that I'm having the most money . I can't trust that I'm going to be the smartest . I'm still not the smartest , but I'm the best grade-tabbing cat out here . I am a professional anesthesiologist , right , who gets to treat patients at a high freaking level . I am a master studier . I am a master educator and speaker . Why ?
Because I trusted that , no matter where I am today , I can trust in the fact that I can constantly and I can for always improve myself . And I recognize that most people aren't willing to put themselves out there and say , listen , I can get better . But that's where it starts , guys . We understand what I'm saying right now .
If you're with me right now , if you're liking this live action live stream with Dr Pintet , like the video right now , kind of let me know on their own . Spencer , what up Dijon ? What is up Julian ? What is up DeJohn ? New accepted student in the medical school One of my students in the medical school . I love it , right .
And Spencer said my dad told me the same thing , right , just go . And he said C's get degrees , but C's don't . Yeah , c's may get degrees , but you know what ? C's get A med school rejection . And you know what ? Spencer doesn't have multiple acceptances , including multiple acceptances with wonderful scholarship money and I'm so proud of Spencer .
Right , We've got DeJuan here , we've got Spencer here , both of them starting medical school in the fall . Very proud of them . That's what we're trying to achieve . Guys we have to trust and actually can we sidetrack here for a second as we trust ourselves to get better , to invest in ourselves , to put the time in , to improve .
I have to give a shout out to trusting the right people through your improvement . And DeJuan and Spencer are two guys who have been with me for multiple years now , four or five years-ish , and Spencer a little longer than that , even trusted me enough to say hey , dr Pineset , what you're saying is crazy and I know it . Guys , I get it .
I see the comments , I say stuff and y'all be like dang , this guy is nuts , he's off his rocker . He's saying the exact opposite of what I've heard time and time again about how to be successful on the MCAT , how to be successful on the application , how to be successful as a pre-med , how to be successful as a person .
He's saying the opposite of what everybody says . But the few will trust in the crazy guy , and that crazy guy all of a sudden starts making sense and it's like , oh snap , why would I do what everyone else is doing ? Why would I zig when they're all zigging ? How about I zag and I work around smarter and I come at that from a different angle .
Sneak attack , pow , pow to success . That's what I want to do , and so I want to say thank you to the students who do trust me , who put their faith in the crazy guy and understand I'm not crazy . I'm just looking at the world from a different perspective , from a smarter perspective , trying to get you guys ahead .
So , spencer Dijon , thank you guys so much for trusting me , trusting yourselves and me and getting to your success and getting to your mental acceptance . Okay , that's the first part we're hitting . That's part one . Let's transition to part two . Right , so we're talking about trusting ourselves to put the work in , to improve ourselves .
Now let's look at once we improve , once we're actually . Now it's gonna take action . We're gonna start studying , we're gonna start being in a club , we're gonna start doing research , we're gonna do whatever . When you guys go into these experiences , so many students sell themselves short .
They go into an experience with low expectations of themselves and they project those low expectations out to other people . I don't know if you guys have ever seen this . Can I ask , as a group , can we take a survey real quick ?
How many of you guys have seen someone and you look at them and you can tell they don't trust themselves , they're uncertain of their place ? How many of you guys can look at someone and you can see that they're very confident in themselves ? There's no doubt that they trust themselves . They're confident in who they are .
I had a student come shout at me the other day and the student came and shouted at me and the posture they were having , the way they spoke , everything about them screamed I don't trust myself , I don't know who I am , I don't believe in myself . And so I had to have a talk with them . I'm like , hey , listen , what's going on ?
Are you going to be a doctor ? They're like well , yeah , I want to be a doctor . I said no , no , no , no . Are you going to be a doctor ? Well , I really want to be . And I said you've got to believe with everything inside you that you have what it takes to be a doctor .
If you don't believe you can become a doctor , how are you going to become it ? I said it reeks , you reek , of non-trust . And if you don't trust yourself , we're in a clinical environment . You're here shadowing , you're coming off as the anti-eager , like you don't want to be here , you're not excited to be here , you're overwhelmed by it .
So for you guys , right , we got to be able to project our self-trust , and to do that , it starts with knowing who we are and trusting in who we are and what's powerful about this . Right , I just talked about the other side of that .
These students put their trust in me , and what I find is is a lot of my students they suffer from the same things you guys are from the self-doubt and all that kind of stuff . But there's something about them where they know what they want . They know they want medical school , they know they want to become a doctor and they know why . They know their why .
And for you guys , as students , about who are you ? Who do you want to be ? What impact do you want to make in this world ? What are the characteristics that you want to bring to the table ? As pre-medical students , it's very easy to get swept up into the wave of pre-med zombies .
I'm supposed to do this , I'm supposed to do this , I'm supposed to do this . I encourage all my students . First thing we sit down , I say wait , forget everything you've done . What do you want to do ? What matters to you in your hearts ? Who are you and what are you really caring about ?
And if you can do that guys , if you can get aligned on who you are and you can trust and know who you are , what's amazing about that is a couple things . One is that you will gravitate towards others . Who are you in another form , who are your true self ? Right , you are who you roll with , but you'll start to collect those people .
So my cult of greatness , right , my are who you roll with , but you'll start to collect those people . So my cult of greatness , right , my students , it's like a hive mind , because we're attracted , we understand who we are and what we want from ourselves and what we expect from ourselves , and so we pull this in and we become this crazy cult .
That's what it is is when you know who you are , you can see yourself in other people you are , you can see yourself in other people . How many of you guys are around a bunch of people who ain't your peoples , right ? How many of you guys don't know who you are , so you don't know who others are ?
And this is so important because on this here internet , there's a lot of people out here , and the internet is cool and it's amazing because it puts the whole world at your fingertips . But the problem is is not everybody was because it puts the whole world at your fingertips . But the problem is is not everybody was meant to have a platform .
I'm gonna be honest with you guys . Is that fair to say ? Not everyone was meant to have their voice heard . They'd be better off being canned and put away on the back shelf and because of that right , and then the proliferation of short form content . People talk for 30 seconds . Right , I'm doing 30 minute live streams , hour long live streams .
When someone talks for 30 seconds , it's easy to go copy off someone and sound smart for 30 seconds . And when I got on TikTok , it's funny and , by the way , I'm at Pre-Man Productivity across all social media if you want to follow me at Pre-Man Productivity .
When I got on TikTok , there's this thing called a stitch and I don't know what the other one's this go down . At first I was getting mad , so I'm like this bozo . That's not true , but I recognize .
I recognize in this world it's so easy , it's so much easier to comment , to criticize , to critique other people , than it is to come up with your own original idea . Did everybody ? It's so easy . That's why people love TikTok . Oh , I'm going to copy this dance . How about you become a choreographer and create your own dance ? That's talent .
It takes no talent to copycat , and so that's what the internet runs into .
But if you know who you are , you know what you want and you really invest the time to figure out what it takes to get there you're going to go to , you're going to gravitate towards people who are truly experienced , people who truly have your best interest at heart , and that's what I offer .
Like , people get in my programs like , oh , there's going to be all this information . There's a ton of information . I'm throwing at you a ton of novel things that I've created .
But the most important thing I offer to students is the truth , is I offer them someone that they can trust in and they can rely on , someone who's not going to judge them , someone they can talk to like totally openly . And because they can do that , they can show me all their warts .
I can show them how to fix their warts and turn themselves from the little frog into a prince who gets the girl at the end of the movie . That's what I do for students . I support them , I'm there for them and I give them someone they can trust in to reveal everything about themselves , and then we shape that into amazingness .
But when we know who we are , then we're comfortable telling people about our awards , telling people that we're not perfect and I'm by no means perfect but every single day I aspire to be more and more and more perfect every single day , and so when we know who we are , we won't be led astray by people who don't have our best interest at heart .
So if we know that we're meant to be a doctor , we're meant to be successful , then we will carry out the actions of a successful person and we won't be led astray by the friends like , hey , let's go to this party , by the friend who's like , hey , listen , forget that exam . No , this is my future .
Right in front of me , and I was just texting today one of my students who's now moved up as a second year medical student and he was like he's like , hey , dr Pines , what's going on ? I'm like , hey , how's it going ? Like he's like I'm a second year now . I'm like , oh , my gosh , that's amazing , how's it going ?
And I'm like he's that's great , you're clearly following what I tell people to do in my diet and medical course . Thank you for doing that . But wait , how are the grades ? Are you focusing on your classes ? Are you building up your clinical knowledge so that you are a well-versed medical student and future clinician ?
Don't forget that , because that's what matters , that's priority number one . And he's like oh , no , no , no , I got that . And he was like actually , let me , I'll read exactly what he said , because it's actually really good what he said . I love the response . I was like , ooh , yes .
So I was like , make sure you know your medical stuff and that you do well in classes . Without the classwork and test scores , research is empty . What's special you think about ? He's like ortho and he's like no , no , no , I'm on it . I got all the books I need . I'm constant thought . All I'm thinking about is focused on that .
He said how could this lead to this , how could this do this ? And I'm breaking it all down already on it and I'm studying for step already as finishing first year . While doing all this , this is all I do . Obsessed hashtag , that's knowing yourself . I'm focused , I'm dedicated , I'm ahead of the curve , I'm on it .
No , this is not Richard , this is a different student , right ? That's what I want to see from my students is that they know themselves not being led astray by the medical schools that mislead and it's not on purpose . Medical schools bring me in . I've done a half dozen medical talks in the last couple of months and I go into these medical schools .
These Like what . I've done a half dozen med school talks in the last couple of months and I go into these medical schools . These medical schools pay me to come in and teach and basically I un-teach their students Because for a year if they're MS1s , or for two years they're MS2s , or even for three years , they're MS3s .
All they've been told is , hey , do this , it's okay , or they've been cracking the whip . If you don't do this , you won't . So there's all these extremes in medical school .
So I have to come in and I have to break all the broken frameworks and knowledge that the medical schools have given them and then I have to give them tactical advice on how to be successful in their own way . And this talks go amazingly and the kids love it and all that stuff . And I call them kids . They're adults , but these young people are all excited .
But it's because , guys , we're opening up opportunities to be successful on your terms and that's why it's so important as we pivot here . A , you're going to stay away from people who aren't your people . You're going to find people who are your people but , most importantly , you're going to be your kind of people .
You're going to live your life on purpose , on passion , because you're centered in who you are . You can trust . This is who I am Right . And as a quick sidebar , let's test yourselves . Here's a new test to see if you trust yourself . Describe yourself in one sentence . So write these questions down . Describe yourself in one sentence . Who are you ?
If I asked , who are you ? If you can describe it in one sentence , you can trust that you know who you are . If you can't , it's time to get some clarity , right , because that precision is clarity For me . I'm Dr Andre Pineset and I love my family and I love I love helping students live up to their potential . It's one sentence , one sentence .
I love my family and I love helping my students reach their potential . I can trust I know exactly who I am and what I'm about . And if you look at my life and all the actions I've taken , from pre-med to med school , whatever , it's always been the same it's family time and it's student time .
Investing in you guys , investing in my family , because that's my trust in myself . Ok , second question Do you keep your promises to yourself or are you someone who's constantly lying to yourself ? Let's ask , right , do you keep your promises ? Oh , I promise this semester is going to be different this time . I'm going to take advantage of this opportunity .
Are you constantly breaking your promises ? I'm going to make this schedule . That schedule is a promise . Are you breaking the promise to yourself A lot of broken promises , right ? Next question Can you rely on yourself to follow through on your commitments ? Are you someone who's constantly dropping activities ? Who's constantly dropping pursuits ? Who's there ? Right ?
I got a friend who every time I see him , he's got some new big scheme to get rich . Every time I see him , him , he's got some new big scheme to get rich . Every time I see him , and I'm like buddy if you just put half this attention into one of these schemes and saw it through , you'd be successful .
But you keep flip-flopping because you can't rely on yourself to follow through on your commitments . Right ? How many of you guys take on all these ice tricklers and then you don't follow through ? Take on all these ice tricklers and then you don't follow through ? Right , how often do you ? This is very important . Listen to how I word this .
How often do you meet your own standards ? This is not a comparative . How often do you meet your very own standard , the standard that you set for yourself ? This is what I expect from myself . This is my standard . How many times do you meet that standard ?
Or do you find yourself constantly falling short of your standard , letting yourself down , being a suboptimal person to yourself , right , and if you go through all these questions , ask yourself , right at the summation of all these questions hmm , have I proven to myself that I am trustworthy or have I proven to myself that I'm not someone who can be trusted ?
Right , it becomes very clear . It becomes very , very clear . You have to be able to trust yourself . This is my passion . I will not be dissuaded to follow something else . I'm following my passion , right ? If you're still with me , we're at 28 minutes right now .
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Right , we've talked about the lack of trustworthiness and the importance of being trustworthy , but now let's flip it right , because we always have that action . How do we go from being this person who we fill with self-doubt , we can't trust ourselves , we can't execute , we don't do what we're supposed to do . How do we become the person who we can trust ?
It starts here , guys . It starts here here . Get clarity on your goals . I get it . You say I want to become a doctor . Sure , but what are the key steps to get there ? What does it mean to you to be a doctor ? There's all different types of doctors , not just specialties . But are you going to be an academic ? Are you going to be in private practice ?
Are you going to be someone who mentors ? Are you going to be a do health outreach ? What kind of doctor are you going to be ? An academic ? Are you going to be in private practice ? Are you going to be someone who mentors ? Are you going to do health outreach ? What kind of doctor are you going to be ?
And this is so important because we have to get clear on these , because then , once we get clear on these shades of what our doctor life is , it allows us to track back and say , okay , wait , here are the experiences and here are the skills that I need to develop . Here's the experience I need to have and the skills I need to develop .
And now that gives us these smaller , incremental , right , achievable moments and goals that will guide our daily and our weekly and our monthly lives , so that way we can recognize and see and evaluate am I on track to become the specific type of doctor I want to be Then ? Not just professionally , what are my goals personally ?
And this is so , so valuable guys , I recognized early on I had a lot of bad mental traits . I was the self-doubt , I was the person who didn't really know myself . I just want to kind of fit in . I don't want to really be seen , I just want to exist right in the space because I feel like an imposter . So if they see me they'll say I'm an imposter .
I just want to kind of blend in . How many guys are there ? And so I recognized that I had a lot of mental sickness . I had a lot of mental sickness , not quite illness . I had a lot of mental sickness and scoop all that junk out of my brain and replace it with much more positive things .
And I recognized I had to do this because , yes , professionally it would help me , but also at a personal level , how many of you guys feel like you're trapped in a toxic relationship with yourself Right , where you're beating yourself up , beating yourself down , always right , never lifting up , always tearing yourself down , pulling yourself in the wrong direction , like
how did we get here ? How did this relationship devolve like this right Me myself and I ? It's a terrible relationship . I recognized I was in a toxic relationship with myself and I had to fix that and I had to clear that up and I had to get rid of that negative self-talk . I had to do some different things .
I had to modify so I could be better professionally , but then also personally , so I could have healthy relationships like I do with my wife now . So I'm going to have healthy relationships and dynamics with my family members , who sometimes don't have the healthiest dynamics . Right .
I had to make that setup to change my whole life , not just professionally but also personally , on a different note . So what are those goals and how we want to be and what are the experiences and skills I have ? So I went deep into psychology . I went deep into the study of mental health and mental fitness right .
So mental illness , mental sickness , mental health right . And then we got mental fitness , where we're not just healthy , we're super fit and that's where I exist now . Is that mental fitness ? So I made those alterations . Does that make sense to everybody ?
So you want to get clear on your goals and then clear on how you're going to get there the skills and experiences . The second thing is , guys and this is again , this is all stuff that I did . I only tell you , guys , what I do , what I practice , what I preach . The second thing you have to do is you have to get consistent .
Everybody wants something quick , everybody wants a quick hitter , tip , blah , blah . Everyone thinks they're gonna get the a in one day . But I constantly say here straight a's are not made in a day , they're not made in one way . Straight a's are made every day , in every way and everything you do . Get consistent , guys .
Literally I'm not the smartest person , i'm'm not the best reader , I don't have a photographic memory , I don't have any of that stuff , but I'm able to get the top grades , I'm able to pass all my board exams , I'm able to be this amazing , dynamic critical care physician as an anesthesiologist . Why ? Because I'm consistent .
I didn't cram Every single day just a little bit in my brain . It's easy . I'll learn this one fact . I'll learn this the power of consistency .
Be consistent in your life Every single day , make strides towards your goal , towards the A , towards becoming class president , towards getting the research publication , because showing up one day and saying I want a research publication , it's not going to happen Every single day . Are you showing up consistently and showing up ?
Listen to me , yes , you show up , but you consistently show up and show out . What does that mean ? To show out that means I'm not just present , I'm gosh darn omnipresent . I'm everything . I'm in this moment , I'm locked in , I'm focused . I'm not thinking about the next thing , I'm thinking about this thing . How can I execute right here , right now ?
How can I bring my best to whatever's in front of me my books , my research , my club , my volunteering how can I be my best ? And if you do that and you focus in , you consistently show up and you consistently show out , what you'll see is you'll start to notice that people are noticing you . Oh , wow , andre's been volunteering here .
Look at every time he's here . Everyone seems so chipper . He must be positive attitude here . Oh my gosh , I'm just looking from afar but it looks like Andre's helping that person . He doesn't have to . Oh my gosh , that's amazing . Oh my gosh , andre shows up to every single lab meeting .
He's taking notes , he's helping with so-and-so's project and so-and-so's project . He's not sulking in the corner like that other pre-med student , right ? He's not always calling in sick , sending email , can't be there missing this . He's the first one here . He's always helping out . Let's give him his own project . Hey , you know what ?
Andre has showed up to class consistently . He sat in the front row . After he bombed the midterm he came to me and he said listen , I've been there , I'm trying everything . I had a rough day . Can I get some extra credit ? Can I get a makeup ? Can I do anything ? Can you help me ? Can you tutor me closely , professor , before this final exam ?
Yes , I'm going to do it , because he showed up consistently in this class and he showed out . He's front row taking notes diligently . I see him sweating during class taking these gosh darn notes . Are you going to show up and show up for yourself consistently Through consistency ? Guys , you can't lose If you're consistent .
You don't give up Consistency and then follow it up with that persistency , you win it . You win it forever , forever , ever . Yes , consistency and persistency . Persistency is a word . Trust me , consistency and persistency , those two things are undefeated . It's the magical combination y'all , consistency and persistency . Take that to mind . Persistency Next up .
We try to be consistent , we try to stay on task with our goals . But are we perfect beings ? Absolutely not . And so because of that , we're going to fall short . Because of that , we're going to stumble . Because of that we're going to fall short . Because of that we're going to stumble . Because of that , we're going to fail and falter , and so forth .
When it happens , we don't shut down . When it happens , we don't just gloss over it and ignore it . We hold ourselves accountable because we are our failure in the sense that we create that failure . It's not permanent , but we create that failure , the sense that we create that failure . It's not permanent , but we create that failure .
We create that procrastination . When you procrastinate , don't blame it on the distractions , blame on the fact that you didn't have the systems in place to keep you from procrastinating right . When you don't get the A , don't blame the professor . Take it on .
Hold yourself accountable and the power in this is that you are the only thing you truly have complete control over . I can't control the professor , I can't control the research lab dynamics , I can't control the politics of my school club , but I can control my thoughts , my actions , my effort , my focus towards my activities .
So hold yourself accountable and see where you drop the ball or where you possibly contributed to that shortcoming , and then fix it . You own the mistake , you learn from it . You say what is the lesson , how can I make sure this never happens again ?
And then you move forward , not at the same speed , but even faster , because now you can have more confidence that you're on a better path . So we analyze , we hold ourselves accountable . We analyze , we assess and then we elevate . Yes , we take off . Failure is a forward movement . Fail fast , fail hard , fail forward so we can get on to the next success .
Hold yourself accountable , guys . No more excuses , right ? What do we say ? No excuses , just dominate the next step , the next step . Everyone talks about not being disciplined enough . How many of you guys struggle with self-discipline ? How many of you guys struggle with staying on task ?
How many of you guys struggle to manage your time right , to avoid that procrastination ? This is so important . Listen to me here . Discipline is a practice . What do I mean by that ? What are things that are a practice ? Right ? Like medicine is a practice , yes , what do I mean by discipline as a practice ?
What I mean by that is that discipline is not something you just acquire . That is , that discipline is not something you just acquire . Discipline is something that you have to constantly and consistently work at and refine . Discipline takes effort , it takes practice . It is a skill that you develop . It is a practice . So it's not just I'm going to be disciplined .
No , you can get more and more discipline through your practice and the way that we become disciplined . This is so important , guys . We don't . The key to discipline and being on track is A we get centered in ourselves . But the second part of this is that you have to set up your surroundings to facilitate discipline .
If you want to be more disciplined , you need to make a schedule that accounts for every single second of your day . If you want to be more disciplined , you have to be very clear about what your priorities are and what does get on your to-do list and what does not get on your to-do list .
And if you are clear on who you want to be , what's a priority to you and when those priorities are getting done , it turns out you suddenly develop all this self-discipline . How ? Because we got clarity , we prioritized and we put it on the gosh darn schedule . So now we've taken away our opportunity to be undisciplined .
Because if you think about the difference between disciplined and undisciplined , this is kind of this is a longer lecture , but I'm going to shrink it . Are you ready ? Discipline the difference between discipline and being undisciplined , is simply choice .
If left to our own choices , we will 90% of the time make the wrong choice , because the wrong choice happens to be the easy choice , the easy thing , the path of least resistance . The wrong choice happens to be the easy choice , the easy thing , the path of least resistance . And so the key to becoming highly disciplined is to remove choice whenever possible .
Remove all the little , tiny million decisions you make a day . Get rid of those so that way you can be disciplined . And when I'm talking about removing choice and removing decision and Spencer's already headed me because he's my student to do that requires that we become the routine . If we develop the right routine , something you do once is an action .
Something you intentionally do multiple times is a routine . Something you subconsciously autopilot to and do is the habit that results from that routine , repeated multiple times , and that habit that you do all the time , consistently , every single time , becomes the outcome , which is why straight A's are made every day , in every way , not just one day , one way .
Did you guys catch that ? The action , the routine , is the purposeful action , repeated over and over again , that becomes the habit , that becomes your outcome . And so we can become the high , successful , high disciplined person by acting consciously with our routine and creating that habit .
And we do that getting clear on what we want , clearing our priorities right , so only our priorities get on the to-do list , and then making that to-do list into a schedule where every single second is occupied and scheduled .
So we eliminate the decision , we eliminate the opportunity to make the wrong decision , to make the wrong choice , to take the easy path , and instead we take the path that's going to serve us , the purposeful path . Does everybody understand what I'm saying right now ?
And if you can do that , if you can get clear on your goals , if you can work on being consistent , if you can hold yourself accountable when you don't meet your consistency goals and if you can practice self-discipline through routine and creating functional habits , it turns out right .
When we create these habits , these default actions , then we can be relied upon to follow through and carry it out . And so we build that trust in ourselves . We demonstrate that trust and it plays out because you guys have seen this in your activities right . Well , think about doing your lives . Who do you rely on ? Who's trustworthy ?
The people who show up consistently , the habit , the habit of showing up and showing up right . Yes , wonderful . I hope you guys have enjoyed today's live stream . We're at 42 minutes . I appreciate you guys all showing up . We're live action Mondays , wednesdays , 4.30 pm Pacific time . I'm here to bring you guys positivity , productivity , help you reach your goals .
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