Dr. Alok Kanojia

So two years of college in, I've got like an average of less than one. So I had a 2.1 my last semester. And before that, it was like a one point something. And so, and my parents tried everything. They tried to like, you know, punish me and they tried like tough love and love, love. And like, they just didn't know what they were dealing with because I was really addicted. So I went to India.

So two years of college in, I've got like an average of less than one. So I had a 2.1 my last semester. And before that, it was like a one point something. And so, and my parents tried everything. They tried to like, you know, punish me and they tried like tough love and love, love. And like, they just didn't know what they were dealing with because I was really addicted. So I went to India.

So two years of college in, I've got like an average of less than one. So I had a 2.1 my last semester. And before that, it was like a one point something. And so, and my parents tried everything. They tried to like, you know, punish me and they tried like tough love and love, love. And like, they just didn't know what they were dealing with because I was really addicted. So I went to India.

I spent three months at an ashram studying yoga and meditation and like fell in love with it. So my whole life, like I wanted things, but I could never get myself to do them. So I had like desires, like I had goals, but I couldn't motivate myself. And on the flip side, I was like a slave to my desires when it came to video games.

I spent three months at an ashram studying yoga and meditation and like fell in love with it. So my whole life, like I wanted things, but I could never get myself to do them. So I had like desires, like I had goals, but I couldn't motivate myself. And on the flip side, I was like a slave to my desires when it came to video games.

I spent three months at an ashram studying yoga and meditation and like fell in love with it. So my whole life, like I wanted things, but I could never get myself to do them. So I had like desires, like I had goals, but I couldn't motivate myself. And on the flip side, I was like a slave to my desires when it came to video games.

And I was playing video games for like 16 to 20 hours a day, like seven days a week. like just wasn't going to class for like a month at a time. So I would like order fried rice by the pound and fuel myself with like two liter bottles of soda and like pounds of fried rice at like 20 hour stretches.

And I was playing video games for like 16 to 20 hours a day, like seven days a week. like just wasn't going to class for like a month at a time. So I would like order fried rice by the pound and fuel myself with like two liter bottles of soda and like pounds of fried rice at like 20 hour stretches.

And I was playing video games for like 16 to 20 hours a day, like seven days a week. like just wasn't going to class for like a month at a time. So I would like order fried rice by the pound and fuel myself with like two liter bottles of soda and like pounds of fried rice at like 20 hour stretches.

And so what I loved about India is I discovered like a system of learning that teaches me about myself. So in the way that we can learn algebra, like we learn about desire. Where does desire come from? What happens if you satisfy it? All that kind of stuff. So I decided to become a monk.

And so what I loved about India is I discovered like a system of learning that teaches me about myself. So in the way that we can learn algebra, like we learn about desire. Where does desire come from? What happens if you satisfy it? All that kind of stuff. So I decided to become a monk.

And so what I loved about India is I discovered like a system of learning that teaches me about myself. So in the way that we can learn algebra, like we learn about desire. Where does desire come from? What happens if you satisfy it? All that kind of stuff. So I decided to become a monk.

spent the next seven years studying with different like teachers in India, went a little bit to South Korea and Japan, and I was going to become a monk. My teachers at the age of 21, I tried. They said, you need to come back when you're 30. And then if you still want to do it, we'll take you. But they still continued teaching me.

spent the next seven years studying with different like teachers in India, went a little bit to South Korea and Japan, and I was going to become a monk. My teachers at the age of 21, I tried. They said, you need to come back when you're 30. And then if you still want to do it, we'll take you. But they still continued teaching me.

spent the next seven years studying with different like teachers in India, went a little bit to South Korea and Japan, and I was going to become a monk. My teachers at the age of 21, I tried. They said, you need to come back when you're 30. And then if you still want to do it, we'll take you. But they still continued teaching me.

Ended up meeting my wife, decided that the monk thing wasn't necessarily the path that I wanted to be on. And then I was kind of stuck because like I graduated from college, had a 2.5 GPA, but then like, what am I going to do? So decided to apply to med school, got rejected from 120 med schools over three years before I finally got accepted to one.

Ended up meeting my wife, decided that the monk thing wasn't necessarily the path that I wanted to be on. And then I was kind of stuck because like I graduated from college, had a 2.5 GPA, but then like, what am I going to do? So decided to apply to med school, got rejected from 120 med schools over three years before I finally got accepted to one.

Ended up meeting my wife, decided that the monk thing wasn't necessarily the path that I wanted to be on. And then I was kind of stuck because like I graduated from college, had a 2.5 GPA, but then like, what am I going to do? So decided to apply to med school, got rejected from 120 med schools over three years before I finally got accepted to one.

And then went to med school, was going to do oncology, but then fell in love with psychiatry because I loved the mind. So I ended up training, doing my psychiatry training at Harvard. Big irony that I wound up there. And the interesting thing is when I went back to med school, I didn't care at all about going to Harvard or anything like that. I didn't even look at my grades.

And then went to med school, was going to do oncology, but then fell in love with psychiatry because I loved the mind. So I ended up training, doing my psychiatry training at Harvard. Big irony that I wound up there. And the interesting thing is when I went back to med school, I didn't care at all about going to Harvard or anything like that. I didn't even look at my grades.