When I switched jobs to be in the operating room five days a week, there were a lot of upsides. (no more patient phone calls for one)
But there were some downsides too. One if which is that I’m 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 and I have to very careful which ones I use.
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 makes a fortune (if you start early enough).
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, it is for me)
I’m looking at your studying the same way. If you just had to study for this weekend the stuff in my (currently on sale) 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 fo 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 with MYTE we can make you a MUCH better student over just a little time, but it takes a little time to implement this stuff and make it a habit.
You have until the end of PA week to change your ways. 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 waiting until Friday night and rushing over at 11:59 hoping to still get the 25% off.