Ali Abdaal on Identity, Prestige, Creativity & Meaning and Deciding To Leave Medicine
The Pathless Path with Paul Millerd
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Is It a Trickster?
I never would have thought of myself as a trickster. I think growing up i very much had the identity of being the kid who got realy good grades. And that was what my entire identity was focused around. When i saw, like, magic show pen and teller fulos on t v, i was o my god, i can become a magician,. But then i can also, that will help me be more confident and carismatic an stuff, which will help me get into mediscal. That was the sort of model there. It was a god orienta behaviour, because a magic is sick, and be to make myself more confident.
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