Before going to PA school, I taught Biology in an all boy’s Catholic school, and one incident that’s stuck with me through the years happened while we were covering the thyroid.
I introduced the concept of the thyroid gland and how it regulates metabolism. A very funny and very overweight young man in the second looks row looks up at me and says, “Mr. Wallace, is that why I’m fat, cause of a slow thyroid.”
The kid directly in front of him turns to him and replies, “No, your fat because you eat too much.”
I don’t know the case for this particulate child, and there are always outliers, but nine times out of ten, the second kid is right. In medicine, we refer to Occam’s Razor. The simplest answer is most likely the right answer. It’s probably not the kid’s thyroid. It might be, but it probably isn’t.
Is it a conspiracy within the deep state to take over the world? Maybe, but more likely it’s a bunch of people vying for power for themselves.
Another way to say it is if you hear hoofbeats it’s probably horses, not zebras. Doesn’t mean it can’t be a zebra, but it probably isn’t. So at least look into the easy, obvious stuff first.
That is a philosophy I’ve been using for a very long time with excellent results
If you’re not getting the grades you want, the solution is probably not as complicated as you think. It isn’t using Cecile’s over Harrison’s (or god forbid both). It isn’t that your teachers are out to get you. It isn’t that you’re not working hard enough. There is no conspiracy.
Most likely it’s that you’re doing the wrong things. It’s most likely that you’re complicating things and complicating your time.
It could be that your teachers have singled you out, but that’s the zebra. The horse would be that you aren’t managing things well. The most likely scenario is that there are some simple things you’re dropping the ball and that can easily be fixed, and aren’t you fortunate I’ve got just the solution.
There are so many easy things to fix. It’s like when you learn that you take your fingers out if the needle driver. It’s incredible how much better you can be once you learn a few simple things
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