Monday, July 29, 2019

“Unhappy is He Who Depends on Success to be Happy" - Alex Dias Ribeiro, Former Formula 1 Race Car Driver

Age-related professional decline is the last thing many doctors want to think about. Those who have just finish years of arduous training can't imagine that they have only 15 years until they will deteriorate (statistically true), and those of us in middle age don't want to think about our impending, cognitive retreat from medicine. And yet, this fantastic piece in the Atlantic "Your Professional Decline is Coming (Much) Sooner than You Thinkby Arthur C. Brooks is a fascinating, well written article about happiness, gifted and accomplished people, and personal relevance with multiple interesting celebrity examples. Brooks also proposes some quasi-solutions (or at least some work-arounds). I strongly recommend this compelling piece for physicians of all ages and stages.