8 Life Lessons you can learn from doctors.
It’s not how to diagnose diseases.
It is widely known that being a doctor is one of the toughest jobs in the world. Before that, there is a challenging education that require doctors to know wide range of topics in the human body, so they can be reliable in performing their job.
Doctors have to have a strong mindset in order to tackle different problems that they encounter everyday, it will be very good to learn from them.
Here I will outline some of the principles that you can apply in your life from them.
1. Have positive influence :
As a doctor, you have the opportunity to influence so many people, patients, co-workers. It is important to have positive mindset, so you can focus on the important aspects of the job, cure diseases for your patients, collaborate with other doctors to solve problems and so on.
A positive talk with a patient can influence him mentally, and probably he will recover without medicine.
So if you want to be successful in your life, this skill is very important to have.
2. The importance of soft skills :
The path to being a doctor is very tough, the education require students to have very sharp analytical skills and a very good memory. Along with soft skills that are just as important as hard skills.
Leadership, communication, humility… And many more can set the path to positive attitude, along with passion is the surest way to success.
3. Have passion :
Doctors cannot be doctors if they are not passionate about what they do, and this apply to everything in life. Many self help books claim that you shouldn’t give up, and you should be mentally strong…etc. However they forget that being passionate, and in love with what you do are what will give you those qualities.
Whatever that you choose to do, make sure that you love it before commiting your life to it.
4. Remain humble :
Anyone can fall in the trap of ego and arrogance, and that’s OK, because it is a characteristic of humans. However, when it becomes a habit, it is very bad to have.
Doctors or any one can be this way, because of the stress of their work, or as result of sudden success.
You should always remain humble in any case, grateful for the people that helped you, and the circumstances that allow for your sucess.
5. Know your values :
Given the responsibility that doctors have in their job, they have to have strong core values to perform their duty, and this is normal because when you know your values, you can concentrate better at work, and sleep better at night.
Your values will determine where you are, and where you will go in your life. So give this some rigorous thinking.
6. Work hard :
Doctors are resolved to work hard when their education begin to the last breath of their life.
Being smart is not enough, and could make you lazy and arrogant sometimes.
You shouldn’t be afraid of hard work when necessary. Do not take the easy way out, because usually it will cause you problems along the way if what you work on is big responsibility.
7. Manifest extreme ownership :
Being a doctor is a very big responsibility, you basically between life and death of a patient, so you have to know what you are doing, seek help if necessary, and admit your mistakes.
People tend to hide their mistakes, but in reality, this is not productive and can cause you Insomnia later on.
So practice this skill, because it is important for sucess down the road.
8. Take care of yourself :
Doctors are not doctors if they don’t take care of themselves, they learn this in their path to the profession.
It is said that a good body is in a good mind, so taking care of yourself doesn’t just mean outside appareance, it means health, physical, mental, and also spiritual one.
Doing physical exercice, meditation, practising daily gratitude are known to improve health and general fitness, so a couple of hours a day doing this will bring results.
Conclusion :
Doctors are some of the interesting people on the planet, this is due to their experience with patients in the frontline of death and life. So if you have a friend who is a doctor, try to learn from them, and appreciate the friendship.
They will usually teach you hope and gratitude for your life however it is, because there are always some people who suffer more than you.
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