📝 Looking for love we may have left behind
A practice to uncover fixed mindsets in unlikely places.
“Deeply unsettling.”
That was how Genevieve described the feeling she had when she started to realize that she was interested in pursuing medicine. It wasn’t hope, it wasn’t optimism — there was no swelling music as she looked off into the distance and saw her future self confidently suturing a patient — she was sweating it out, picking her cuticles on the verge of an identity crisis.
She was so completely certain that she would never work in medicine that even thinking about maybe doing it was giving her anxiety dreams. I can’t stress this enough — she did not WANT to become a doctor. She was sure that a medical career was wrong not only for her personally, but the wrong way to spend her time on earth. Like, morally wrong. She told me at one point that choosing to become a cardiac surgeon was her being selfish.
This stands in sharp contrast to the pop culture version of the Dream Job, where all you need to find fulfillment is to give in and just SAY YES TO LIFE! With a little self-confi…
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