Upon Comparing Oneself to Others (del Giorgio)

This beautiful essay by Paul del Giorgio in the Bulletin of Limnology and Oceanography is timely and prompts a lot of self-reflection on my part. I’m talking to you: all you high-achieving physicians/APP’s who had to be top of your class year after year and never turned off that competitive streak in your career…

Original Article Here:
https://aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/lob.10579

This prompts several questions for me:

Who is this thoughtful person?
What the heck is Limnology?
Is he writing this for me? (yes, he is)
Can Dall-E draw this for me? What would that look like?

(from Dall-E: except this unhappy self-comparing doctor has 3 hands… and maybe extra fingers too)

CMIO’s take? This is reminiscent of my Failure Resumé. And so articulate. The entire article is a brief read, maybe 5 minutes. It was very much worth my time and maybe worth it for you. Be well, friends.