American Physician Institute for Advanced Professional Studies
Perfectionism is Harmful and Misplaced
The American Psychological Association Dictionary defines perfectionism as: “the tendency to demand of others or of oneself an extremely high [...]
Your Day Well-Lived
Do you sometimes feel life is a blur? Your life as you live it might not be bad exactly, but you’re so [...]
Only You Can Make ‘It’ Happen
Today I focus on the need for self-directed career management and why this type of mindset is sometimes missing. I [...]
Guarding Against Quiet Burnout
When we think of work burnout, we often imagine that the negative effects accrue from high-paced and high-stress jobs, ones [...]
Your Career Over Time
Over my years working in academic settings and supervising residents and fellows, I noticed that often not much attention was [...]
A Cognitive Bias that Hurts Your Career
Based on the type of people that we physicians and other health care professionals tend to be – successful, disciplined, rule-following – and the formative experiences [...]
The Attention Approach – Overcoming Stuckness Part 3
Are you feeling stuck in your life? Many people are. No one is immune. Neither wealth nor health nor younger [...]
Overcoming Stuckness Part 2
Last week I wrote about a certain type of belief that can keep people stuck in whatever dissatisfying state they [...]