If someone asked you to describe your “inner self”, how would you respond? Would you stay silent, be confused, feel irritated, begin to babble or simply ignore the question? In many ways it is extraordinarily strange, yet extraordinarily common that we resist taking the time to understand and reflect on the innermost workings of the […]
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Have you ever found yourself staring at a list of your goals, carefully written out in neat bullet points and feeling utterly stuck and uninspired? Somehow these aspirations, well thought out as they are, just can’t seem to take off from the paper that they are written on. They have feet of clay! Is it
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After years of education and training the meaning and purpose of medicine deeply embeds itself in the “DNA” of physicians. Burnout was already at an all-time high in physicians prior to the pandemic, and has only worsened since its onset. For some physicians, despite their best efforts, their desire to practice medicine, particularly in the
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A fashion designer and a friend’s personal experience are the inspiration behind this story.
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Reading The Medici Effect by Frans Johansson triggered visceral moments of excitement, resonance and inspiration within me. No discipline thrives without innovation. Being open to the knowledge and experience of diverse fields of endeavor not only stimulates novel ways of thinking, but promotes the spirit of collaboration. I believe it was around the time I first read
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The Artist Within I recently read the fascinating story of Dr. Gindi, a German/Egyptian physician turned sculptor. She traveled the world as a general practitioner before shifting her life into that of an artist, studying at the Florence Academy of Art. Although she states that this may not be the most expected transition for a physician, she
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“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”- Henry David Thoreau. What does it mean to live your life deliberately,
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When you are struggling to solve a problem, do you ever find that you get stuck in a rut of stale, circular thinking? To use a quote from Einstein, “The thinking that got us where we are is not the thinking that will get us where we want to be.” In 1975 musician and artist
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The Power of Music: Music has the power to transcend differences and connect globally. https://vimeo.com/33985596?gclid=Cj0KCQjwyMiTBhDKARIsAAJ-9Vv0oL47hDFwQ2tVG_LaSTIjkmHKm9tcY0BKfxL2rGJvqAxrG-uJIqwaAggxEALw_wcB The Power of the Visual: An image can say it all. ‘Melting Gondola’ Artwork Appears
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“A dojo [practice hall] is a miniature cosmos where we make contact with ourselves-our fears, anxieties, reactions, and habits. It is an area of confined conflict where we confront an opponent who is not an opponent, but rather a partner engaged in helping us to understand ourselves more fully…….” Joe Hyams Reading this book, Zen
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