Life Hacks for Hardcore Working Hours and Training: Favia Dubyk
Jun 18, 2022
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Favia Dubyk, a hardworking pathologist who juggles work and training, shares her insights on time management and overcoming setbacks. Topics include prioritizing climbing, managing work-life balance, and reframing setbacks as opportunities. Find out how Favia handles her intense schedule and continues to pursue her passions.
Effective time management and prioritization are essential for balancing a demanding career and pursuing personal goals like climbing.
Reframing setbacks as opportunities for growth and finding creative solutions to work around limitations are key to progressing in climbing and in life.
Deep dives
Fabia Dubit: Balancing Climbing and a Demanding Job
Fabia Dubit, a pathologist and dedicated climber, shares her journey of managing a demanding medical career while pursuing her passion for climbing. Despite facing ongoing physical challenges and setbacks, Fabia maintains a disciplined training schedule and prioritizes her climbing goals. She emphasizes the importance of effective time management and finding creative solutions to work through limitations. Fabia's experience also highlights the benefits of reframing setbacks as opportunities for growth and learning. Through her dedication, she continues to make progress on challenging climbs, such as the iconic Martin E. Ruth, inspiring others to persevere in their own endeavors.
Balancing Work and Climbing
Fabia describes the challenge of juggling her demanding medical career as a hematopathologist with her climbing pursuits. In addition to long working hours and constant learning, she dedicates significant time to training, often fitting in workouts late at night after work. She has developed a decision tree for prioritizing her activities, ensuring that patient care remains top priority while also making time for her training. Fabia's commitment to her training and the physical challenges she faces have driven her to become more disciplined in managing her time and balancing her responsibilities.
Overcoming Setbacks and Adapting Training
Fabia discusses the physical setbacks and injuries she has faced throughout her climbing journey, including dislocations, torn muscles, and ongoing challenges related to EDS syndrome. She shares how these setbacks have taught her resilience and resourcefulness, inspiring her to find creative ways to continue training and climbing. Through rehabilitation exercises, adapting techniques, and focusing on other aspects of her training, Fabia has learned to work around limitations and use setbacks as opportunities for growth. Her experience highlights the importance of perseverance and embracing challenges to progress in climbing and in life.
Conquering Challenges and Martini Roof
Fabia discusses her current project, the iconic Martini Roof, a V12 roof problem at Winklevoss Tanks. She describes the initial challenge of avoiding the dynamic moves, which she struggled with due to her dislocation problem. However, after years of focused training on dinos and working through her fear, Fabia has made progress and now has every move on Martini Roof. She highlights the importance of embracing challenges head-on, reframing setbacks as opportunities, and staying committed to the process. Fabia's determination and growth mindset serve as an inspiration for climbers facing their own projects and obstacles.
Do you want to know more about how to juggle and manage a million different things, and what the process of dealing with setbacks looks like?
Tom Randall is known for juggling a lot, however, Favia Dubyk not only works very hard hours but is also able to train at a higher level, showing us how you can do it all with the right time management. Not to mention Favia has had quite a few setbacks, including being diagnosed with lymphoma during med school and the ongoing challenges it brought. Believing in perseverance and in finding opportunities in the setbacks, Favia keeps proving that humans have much more capacity than we realise!
Being the amazing human being she is, Favia is always thinking outside the box and impressing not just her coach Josh Hadley, but everyone here at Lattice. So, we hope you enjoy today's podcast!*
Main Topics:
Favia's Working life
Her Climbing Life
Managing work life with climbing
How and when to prioritise climbing
Training and outdoor climbing management
What to do if a setback occurs
Opportunities and outcomes of setbacks
How is her Hueco V12 project going
*Apologies if the sound is a bit off, Tom was kicked out of the main Lattice HQ office by the team. We promise we are working towards getting a better podcast studio set-up asap!