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457: Solving for Why: Strategies for creating a career of purpose and meaning with Dr. Mark G. Shrime

Jun 17, 2024

Dr. Mark G. Shrime, author of 'Solving for Why,' discusses finding purpose, reflection, service, competing in American Ninja Warrior, time management, prioritizing deep work, book selection, and discovering personal purpose. The podcast provides insights on aligning actions with one's 'why' and promoting a purposeful life.

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Intro

00:00 • 2min

Finding Purpose Through Reflection and Service

01:45 • 9min

Transformation through American Ninja Warrior

10:41 • 10min

Discovering Your 'Why'

20:19 • 24min

Strategies for Effective Time Management and Prioritizing Deep Work

44:28 • 2min

Selecting Books and Constructing a Purposeful Life

46:48 • 4min

Discovering Purpose and Book Promotion with Sponsor Mention

50:30 • 2min

Welcome to Strategy Skills episode 457, featuring an interview with the author of Solving for Why: A Surgeon's Journey to Discover the Transformative Power of Purpose, Dr. Mark G. Shrime. Solving for Why is an inspiring memoir about finding the answer to life's biggest question—"Why?"—and about following that answer through remarkable, unlikely places on the road to fulfillment, purpose, and joy.

"Turning your heart toward the poor doesn't have to be on a hospital ship in West Africa. It doesn't have to be grandiose. It doesn't have to be newsworthy. It doesn't have to be what your friends, pastors, rabbis, priests, or colleagues say it should. It just has to be." Dr. Mark Shrime

Dr. Mark G. Shrime is the International Chief Medical Officer at Mercy Ships and a Lecturer in Global Health and Social Medicine at the Harvard Medical School. He is the author of Solving for Why: A Surgeon's Journey to Discover the Transformative Power of Purpose (Hachette 2022).

He previously served as the O'Brien Chair of Global Surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, as the founder and Director of the Center for Global Surgery Evaluation at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, and as Research Director for the Program in Global Surgery and Social Change at Harvard.

He has spoken at the United Nations, WHO, Harvard, Princeton, and around the world addressing issues of healthcare inequity, moral injury in the healthcare workforce, and the non-health outcomes of health policies. In 2018, he was awarded the Arnold P. Gold Humanism in Medicine Award by the American Academy of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery.

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