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Sometimes it’s fun to think about this. For me, it’s never about “hard work”, or “effort”, because I personally know I’m always 100%, all-in on everything I do (which, by the way, is not all that it’s cracked up to be, trust me). It’s not about “you’re good at ____”, because I always think “I know I can do better”.
Instead, it’s about these soft skills that I spent the past few years really honing. Soft skills that I didn’t really understand all throughout college. For me, the greatest compliment anyone can give me is “you aren’t scared to try”.
Because for a very, very long time, I was scared to try anything out of fear of failure, and it made my schoolwork and my clinical rotations suffer…it also just bled into my life and I found myself making so many decisions out of fear and horror — and that is just…not good.
These days, I still suffer from paralysis-by-analysis, though it’s gotten much better with my recent ADHD diagnosis/introduction to medication. And, aside from that, I’ve had so much excellent exposure to a growth mindset in the past few years through therapy, journaling, writing these posts, talking with friends, & a desire to be…better. And to think, it all started when I moved to Salt Lake City after graduation for 6 months for an internship. Without that, and without the influential people I met, I would not be where I am today. And that’s really humbling, but in a really excellent way.
