Ed Marks

Hey, let's end on a kind of a fun thing, but can be practical.

Something your parents made you do as a kid where you rolled your eyes, probably like your kids do to you now.

But now as an adult, you're like, man, I'm glad my parents made me do that.

Yeah, that's a good one.

Wow, Jed, this has been amazing.

We talked about a lot of different things.

Uh, we talked about some of the music that you mentioned and it's kind of, uh,

Interesting how it's just all sort of flowed into the common theme of our entire discussion today.

But I think one of them was about mundane, turning the mundane into a masterpiece.

And then just the whole concept in terms of your life message of living

with purpose and always be in the moment, obviously heavily informed by what you would share later with your cancer situation.

We talked about growing up in Oklahoma and then ultimately Buffalo, where you then went to medical school and you married the love of your life that you met there and have three children.

And you chose psychiatry, obviously, as a specialty to better understand people.

And you do watch The Pit with your husband, who's an ED doc.

And so that was kind of fun.

And then we talked a lot about your JAMA article, Time is Infinite, and sort of how you came to the conclusions that you did.

and how important it is to put yourself first.

Don't think you're irreplaceable at work.

You are replaceable, but you're not replaceable at home.

I mean, that's the big thesis.