When I switched jobs to be in the operating room five days a week, there were a lot of upsides. I got to do what I loved every single day. (And I didn’t have a phone number any more!)
But there were some downsides too. One of which is that I’ve become allergic to work. Over the past six months or so I’ve been getting this scaley red rash on my check by my nose. The funny part is that when I take a week off from work, it gets better.
I go back to work, and the rash gets worse.
It turns out it’s the masks.
When I was in my previous job, I was only in the OR and 2.5 days a week. I used to use Avagaurd or the gel stuff to quick scrub. When I moved to the OR 5 days a week that stuff chewed up my hands. I was surprised to see such a difference.
Here’s the point. Doing something once in a while is different from doing something every single day. The little things add up when it’s every single day. Putting $100 month into your 401k for a year doesn’t really matter. Doing it for 20 years builds you a fortune.
Compounding returns. Small things don’t matter if they are once in a while. A piece of cake after dinner is no big deal, but a soda with dinner every night for three years will pack on the pounds. (Replace soda with beer if it’s more applicable, but you get the point.)
I’m looking at how you study through the same lens. If you just had to study for this weekend the stuff in course Maximize Your Time and Efficiency would be more trouble than it’s worth. There’s a point where the returns are HUGE and a point where it makes no sense to learn the stuff that’s in there.
If you’re a first-year student, you have YEARS of studying. Every little tiny improvement you can make in how you do it will be worth a fortune to you. If you’re taking your PANRE next weekend then learning how to improve your studying isn’t going to help.
Consider the compounding effect for the things you do, of the habits you create. Those things, those habits, those actions may not matter today, but what happens months from now if you keep doing them.
I believe using MYTE we can make you a MUCH better student over just a little time, but it does take a little time to implement this stuff and make it all into a habit.
You have until Friday night to decide whether you’d like to keep doing things the same old way or see if there’s something better out there. How about making a new positive habit of getting things done. Getting out in front rather than procrastinating. Start today and head over to Maximize Your Time and Efficiency NOW rather than rushing over on Friday at 11:59 hoping to get it still.
The gates close promptly.
Brian Wallace