Dr. Mim Ari

And as part of that, they give a faculty member an award each year that kind of

focuses on those principles of humanism in medicine.

So initially I wrote this as a speech that I delivered to those students as they were being inducted into the honor society.

And I,

pass it on to a colleague, Adam Sifu, who curates the Sensible Medicine sub stack.

And he asked if I would turn it into a sub stack piece.

So, as you mentioned, Derek Thompson writes about sort of the dangers of being too invested in your work, of that being sort of a false idol.

But as you mentioned, he has one paragraph that there are some people that seem to be deeply fulfilled by their work.

They're deeply dedicated to their work, but they're also they're able to kind of tune out the noise.

and really connect to what they're doing.

I mean, I think it comes in many flavors, and I think being attuned to that is important because...

It can come from just like a really lovely interaction with a patient where you say something that you know resonates with them or they say something back to you that shows, you know, maybe the impact that you've had that you didn't realize you were having.

But sometimes it's, you know, meeting with a student or I just had lunch, you know, at the table behind me with one of my colleagues and connecting about something outside of that.

So I think it's like having that connection.

it's so easy to be distracted by the things that can be hard in medicine.

And, um,

it's being able to look for the things that will bring you joy or that will get you excited.

And I won't quote the literature, but you need to hear 10 positive things for one negative thing.

As humans, I think we anchor on those negative emotions or the negative feedback that we're getting.

And so I think if you can turn the volume up on the positives, that really probably puts us