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109. Is Your Identity Holding You Back?

Sep 19, 2023

This podcast explores the challenges of a physician's identity becoming too narrowly defined and offers strategies to overcome limiting beliefs. They discuss the significance of embracing alternate identities and the common thread between Ted Lasso and Deion Sanders. The episode also delves into the impact of belief on success and fulfillment, and the role it plays in healing.

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Physicians should cultivate multiple identities and passions outside of medicine to lead a fulfilling and balanced life.

Adopting an entrepreneurial identity can help physicians overcome imposter syndrome and fear, empowering them to explore entrepreneurial ventures with confidence.

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Finding Identity Beyond Medicine

Many physicians struggle with their identity being solely defined by their medical careers. The podcast explores the importance of cultivating multiple identities and passions outside of medicine. It emphasizes that being more than just a doctor can lead to a more fulfilling and balanced life. By diversifying identities and finding other interests and pursuits, physicians can overcome the fear of stepping into new endeavors and expand their horizons.

Introduction

2min

The Loss of Well-Roundedness in Medical Education and Residency

2min

Lessons From Buying and Selling Art Toys

11min

Reflecting on 'Room Busher' and Physician's Identity

2min

Breaking Free from Limiting Beliefs

9min

The Power of Belief and Its Impact on the Brain

2min

We wear many hats in life, and one of them can become disproportionately large: our professional identity. Don’t get me wrong, being a physician is amazing and the associated identity is imbued with meaning and purpose. The challenge comes when identity becomes calcified and too narrowly defined. When that happens, it can limit us.

In this episode, we delve into the diverse and often unforeseen roles of a physician, the constraints placed on one's identity due to deeply entrenched beliefs about our own capacities, strategies to overcome limiting beliefs, how the term "just" can undermine one's potential, the significance of embracing alternate identities, and the common thread between Ted Lasso and Deion Sanders.

Guest Bio:

Pranay Parikh is a principal of Ascent Equity Group, a real estate, private equity company, predominantly for physicians with over 310 million in assets. Pranay is also the purveyor of the Passive Real Estate Income Academy course, which teaches doctors to be able to find vet and invest in real estate syndications; part of the Passive Income MD podcast, and most recently The Effective Living Formula Course - doing more of what matters. (here's his free webinar) On the side, he is a hospitalist, nocturnist, husband, and father of two young sons.

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We Discuss:

You are more than ‘just’ a doctor
Pranay’s system for how he approaches life
An over-the-top identity exercise
What assumptions do you make about yourself?
Unpacking the word 'Just'
Exercises to Overcome ‘Just’
The Power of Alter Egos
Belief impacts outcome

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109. Is Your Identity Holding You Back?