American Physician Institute for Advanced Professional Studies
Goal Attainment Strategies
Striving to attain an important life goal is hard, usually requires multiple steps over an extended period, and is prone [...]
Finding Momentum in Inadequacy
Life is complicated. We constantly need to learn something new. Too much, though, is new. Always new. The new does [...]
Never Succumb to Therapeutic Nihilism
An aspect of practicing medicine that often troubled me early in my career, and that arose periodically since when treating [...]
Compassion Fatigue
Compassion fatigue affects professionals working with people presenting with forms of pain and suffering and it can lead the professional [...]
Harness Regret for Success
Regret is a complex human emotion. However, regret’s power to help and to harm is often misunderstood, and it’s often not perceived at all. Even among those aware of regret’s power [...]
Motivational Strategies
A few years ago, I ran across something written by Angela Duckworth, the psychologist well-known for her research and writings [...]