I’m not talking about cutting corners, ever. I’m talking about focusing and paying attention to what you’re doing. If I want to get stronger, I don’t work really hard on my flexibility. That’s kinda dumb. You work really hard on your weight training and proper nutrition.
Is flexibility important?100% yes, but it isn’t your focus. Flexibility maintains your ability to move and prevents injury, so it’s super important, but it still isn’t your focus if you’re trying to lift more weight over time.
It’s the same when you study. Everything is important, but there are better places to focus more of your limited attention. Does that mean I’m saying cut corners and don’t do your pre- and post-workout stretching? No. But I am saying you should probably spend more time lifting than stretching. I am saying you should spend more time on the more important things and less time on the less important things.
Of course, more important and less important is up to you. Yesterday, we talked a little about what you want. That’s how you’re going to decide what’s important. You have to have clarity first, and then it’s easy to tell what matters and what doesn’t.
The Physician Assistant Exam Scholars newsletter is where I have the space and time to dive deeper into topics like this. In the November edition, we go much further down this path and isolate what I think is the best place to spend the bulk of your time, but without the detailed argument it won’t make sense.
So, if you’d like to see how I study and what I’m thinking as I approach the material well, then the place to go is within the pages of the November PAES issues.
See you there.
Physician Assistant Exam Scholars
Brian Wallace
