having second thoughts about medschool and the opportunity cost of your 20s

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"Oh...you're so pretty I didn't think you'd be that smart."

Join me in this episode while I take a trip down memory lane and discuss the many situations where people tried to convince me that pretty and smart couldn't be used in the same sentence. 

Allowing “success” to be your identity and fear of failure later on in life

To all those kids that were going to have a great future and allowed success to become their identity later on in life...I get it, failing sounds terrible but it's not the end of the world. Welcome to your twenties, the holy ground of failure! 

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