How to triple your manuscript productivity

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Welcome to the Clinician Researcher podcast, where academic clinicians learn the skills

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to build their own research program, whether or not they have a mentor.

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As clinicians, we spend a decade or more as trainees learning to take care of patients.

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When we finally start our careers, we want to build research programs, but then we find

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that our years of clinical training did not adequately prepare us to lead our research

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program.

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Through no fault of our own, we struggle to find mentors, and when we can't, we quit.

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However, clinicians hold the keys to the greatest research breakthroughs.

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For this reason, the Clinician Researcher podcast exists to give academic clinicians

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the tools to build their own research program, whether or not they have a mentor.

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Now introducing your host, Toyosi Onwuemene.

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Welcome to today's episode.

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I'm your host, Toyosi Onwuemene, and we are talking about how to triple your manuscript productivity.

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Okay?

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So today we're talking about how to triple your manuscript productivity.

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And I will tell you that when I started my faculty career, I was a binge writer.

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What is a binge writer?

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A writer who needs eight blocks of time or eight hours of time to be able to produce

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anything kind of worthy of writing.

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And so I have a manuscript goal or I have a grant that I need to do, and it's like,

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where can I find eight blocks of time?

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Usually in the middle of the night.

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So I pull the all-nighter, get the writing done.

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In the morning, it's like done.

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And I did keep going with that for a while.

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One of the things I discovered is something that's called a keystone habit.

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So the keystone habit really of writing consistently.

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And I want to talk first about the keystone habit.

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So the principle of a keystone habit I got from Charles Juhigg, and he's the author

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of the book, The Power of Habit.

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And he talked about the keystone habit.

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So you think about a keystone habit as a key that unlocks other doors.

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So essentially, the keystone habit is a fundamental behavior that once you adopt leads to other

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habits forming as well.

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So it's kind of like a chain reaction type of habit.

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It's the one habit that gets you to the next habit that gets you to the next habit.

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Take for example, working out consistently.

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If you went to the gym every day, seven days a week, it changes everything about you.

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It changes a lot about you.

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Not everything, but it changes a lot about you.

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Because when you go to McDonald's and you're in the drive-through window about to order

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the Big Mac, you're like, wait a minute.

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Goodness, I just worked out for the last seven days.

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Should I really be eating this Big Mac?

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It changes the way you think about your eating.

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It changes the way you think about your activity throughout the week, so you've been active

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for like seven days.

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And then you start to ask, well, should I be vegging out in front of the couch for the

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next seven hours?

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So exercise is one keystone habit.

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Not just exercise, but consistent exercise that leads to many changes, including changes

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in the way you eat, changes in your activity for the rest of the week, and changes in other

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things as well.

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So exercise is an example of a keystone habit.

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What I discovered is that another keystone habit that's central to your identity as a

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clinician scientist is writing.

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Writing is a keystone habit.

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Writing is a habit.

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And I'm not just talking about binge writing.

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I'm not talking about the kind of writing I was doing, which is the binge writing where

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I just would churn it out in a matter of days and be like, whoa, look at what I did.

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I'm talking about consistent daily writing, a writing habit.

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See, I'm talking about habits.

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I'm talking about a consistent daily writing habit.

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A consistent daily writing habit is a keystone habit that unlocks many doors as a clinician

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scientist.

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And what it does for you is helps you triple your productivity.

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It triples your productivity.

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Now, I will tell you that what you do every day is more important than what you do every

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week.

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It's more important than what you do every year, and it's more important than what you

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do every couple of years.

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So when we think about the things we do every day are more important than the things we

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do once in a while, and they'll be more important than the things we do once a year.

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So maybe once every couple of months, you have a big writing thing where you're like

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for three days straight, you're just writing and writing and writing, and you produce a

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ton of writing.

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Great.

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Good for you.

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But it's really the story of the tortoise and the hare.

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The tortoise keeps going.

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And because of that, the tortoise over time will cover a lot more ground compared to the

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hare who's like bound, bound, bound, I'm tired, bound, bound, bound, I'm tired, bound, bound,

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bound, I'm tired.

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And the quality, the quality of the work is always higher when it's done consistently

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because over time it gets better and better and better, and the work gets sharper and

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sharper and sharper.

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So how do you do this?

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How do you triple your writing productivity?

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How do you triple your writing productivity, turn it into manuscripts that are published,

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right?

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At the end, you want your work to be published.

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You don't want to just be writing for writing sake.

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You want your work to be published.

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So how do you triple your writing productivity so that you triple your manuscript productivity?

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So the secret sauce, secret sauce, I've given it away already, but the secret sauce is consistency.

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Now here's the rub.

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As clinicians, we are busy.

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If we're not busy seeing the patient, we're busy following up on the patient.

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And if we're not busy following up on the patient, we're busy calling the patient.

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We're busy looking at the patient labs.

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We might be busy scheduling the patient.

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I hope you're not scheduling your own patients, but you might be busy scheduling your own

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patients.

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And if you don't have your own patients to schedule, I bet there's somebody else's patient

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who you could see too.

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There's always, always something to take up your time.

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I mean, we haven't even talked about the committees that you're on or all the other things that

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you do, but you are busy.

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And how do you create time in your super busy schedule for writing productivity?

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I'm going to tell you that the solution to a lot of your busyness is a consistent writing

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schedule.

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Okay.

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I'll talk about it at the end.

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But first, how do we triple our writing productivity?

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Number one, number one is you really got to believe in yourself and your ability to create

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what you want.

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Actually, I'm going to restate that.

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You want to rekindle your belief in yourself and your ability to accomplish the impossible.

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I will say it again.

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You want to rekindle your belief in yourself and in your ability to achieve what's impossible.

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Now why did I say rekindle it?

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Cause you're like, wait, I don't even believe I can't, but you can.

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You've demonstrated it over and over again.

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So number one, you got into medical school.

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Can I just tell you how remarkable a feat that was?

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Let's just pause, take a step back and recognize how hard it is to get into medical school.

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So think about the thousands of pre-meds across the country every year who start in their

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freshman year saying, I'm going to become a doctor.

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I'm going to go to medical school.

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And the thousands who don't make it.

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But you are one of the few, the bold, the brave, the proud, the beautiful.

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You're one of the few who made it in.

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And that is a sign that you put in the work and the effort to make it happen.

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Because people don't get into medical school by accident.

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You just can't roll out of bed and get into medical school.

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If you're going to do it, you're planning for a minimum of a year, but you're planning

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for actually probably three, four years at a minimum to get into medical school.

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Because you got to make sure you have the right classes.

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You got to make sure you have the right grades.

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You got to make sure you have the right MCAT score.

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So you are working towards all these things so you can get into med school.

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You put in a lot of work to make that happen.

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You really achieved something that many people could not achieve.

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And then you went from medical school into residency.

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You made this impossible transition from medical student.

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I don't really know how to take care of a patient to intern.

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Holy cow, I'm the doctor.

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You did that.

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Nobody did it for you.

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Your program director didn't come and make it happen.

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Oh yeah, they put structures in place so that you could get the experience that lets you

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there.

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But you did the work.

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You did.

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You got there by yourself, who acquired all the knowledge that was necessary to be able

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to become the confident third year physician who was able to take care of the patient and

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actually just call the attending as an FYI.

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Like yeah, I need to discuss this patient with you, but I already have the plan.

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I'm done.

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I've already done this.

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I've done this.

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I've done that.

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You did that.

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You went from medical student to intern to resident leading the team.

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Holy cow, you're so amazing.

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And then if you went to fellowship, you crossed over from I'm so good.

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I know what I'm doing to holy cow, this is a new field and I've done nothing like this

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before.

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To the end of fellowship where you're like, yeah, yeah, I'm hot stuff.

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You did that.

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And so now as a faculty member, like why wouldn't you believe that you're the same person who

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can make a career happen as a clinician scientist?

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Okay, yeah, you've been clinical for the last 10 years.

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Okay, so yeah, you haven't had many publications.

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So okay, you don't have experience submitting grants.

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So you have demonstrated over and over again that you can do things that other people can't

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do.

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You've demonstrated your staying power.

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You've demonstrated your commitment.

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There's nothing you can't do.

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And so you know this about yourself.

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I'm not telling you a story you don't know.

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How is it that you're struggling to believe that you, a clinician, can make the

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transition to clinician scientist and do it well?

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How is it that you are struggling to believe that?

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That's why the first thing you've got to do is rekindle your belief in yourself.

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Because when you do, when you know that the moment you start to put in the work, you're

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going to see the output, then you're ready.

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Until you know you're not ready.

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But I know because of your phenotype, I don't have to know you to know at the moment you

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make up your mind that you're going to achieve something, you do what it takes.

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And so that is the first step is rekindle your belief in yourself to remind yourself

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that you are the kind of person who can accomplish impossible things.

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Number one.

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Number two.

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Actually, we start the writing and we start writing for short periods every day, no questions

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asked.

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Take a time, 10 minutes, and write for 10 minutes every day.

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Maybe more realistically, 20 minutes.

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I'm going to write for 20 minutes every day no matter what.

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Yes, I start the OR at 630 a.m. and I go all the way to 5 p.m.

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I'm going to find 30 minutes, 30 minutes to do some writing.

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15 minutes here and 15 minutes there.

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30 minutes every day.

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Every day, just start writing.

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And what do I mean start writing?

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Start writing.

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And by writing, really, it's everything that leads you to that published manuscript.

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Start writing.

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Just 30 minutes a day.

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You have things to write.

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You do.

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And what will happen is the more you write, the more you find to write.

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And the more you write, the more you create to write.

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I told you writing is a keystone habit.

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But the first step is just start it.

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Just start a habit every day.

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Today is Monday.

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I'm going to write for 30 minutes.

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Today, tomorrow is Tuesday.

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I'm going to write for 30 minutes.

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And don't even do more than 30 minutes for like a week, two weeks, three weeks.

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And then you're like, well, you know, I did 30 minutes.

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I've been doing 30 minutes consistently for the last three months.

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What if I upped it to 45 minutes a day?

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Okay.

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Start it.

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45 minutes.

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Where can you get the first 15, the next 15, the next 15?

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Start writing consistently every day.

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And by every day, I'll tell you that I don't write on the weekends and I don't believe

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in writing on the weekends because I take time off for my brain to rejuvenate and rest

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and relax.

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So when I say write every day, I really am saying write Monday to Friday, but I'm also

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recognizing that some of us don't have a Monday to Friday schedule.

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Whatever every day looks like for you without like thinking that this is what you're going

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to be doing seven days a week, write every day.

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The minimum I'm telling you is 20 minutes.

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Every day for 20 minutes.

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Can you find 20 minutes in your 24 hour day?

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Can you find 20 minutes to write?

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Do you want to is the real question.

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for the next three months.

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Create the writing habits.

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you do daily and consistently.

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Create the writing habit.

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Write for short periods of time every day.

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productivity is to make it part of the schedule.

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You know how you look in your Outlook calendar for those of you who have Outlook or other

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calendars, whatever it is that you use, and there are blocks of times for meetings.

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Yes, there should be a block of time for your writing meeting.

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Okay, we've already established the habit.

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my writing done.

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Do you do that?

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You've got to decide for yourself.

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But put it on the schedule.

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It's on the schedule like there's a meeting on your schedule.

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Put it on your schedule.

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Okay, Monday, what's on your schedule for writing?

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30 minutes, put it on your schedule.

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Wednesday, put it on your schedule.

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I'm going to challenge you to put it on your schedule as a recurring meeting.

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Don't wait until Friday and then you look at your schedule for next week and you're

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Create a time.

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Put it on your schedule.

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I'm saying just 30 minutes.

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But 30 minutes, 20 minutes, 30 minutes, 40 minutes, whatever you are choosing, consistently

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writing, put it on your schedule like you have meetings on your schedule every day.

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Okay, so you have rekindled your belief in yourself.

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So you've put it on your schedule.

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It's a meeting and invariably someone's going to call and say, hey, you know, there's the

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only time that this meeting can happen is at 12 p.m. on Monday.

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Oh, and that is your writing time.

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You're not free because you already scheduled a meeting.

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Are you going to honor that commitment to yourself or are you going to break it?

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Are you going to say, well, it's just me writing?

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Or are you going to say, mm-mm, I made a commitment that at 12 p.m. every Monday I write.

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That meeting is non-negotiable.

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What else is available?

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Because if you had, let's say you have a kid and you need to take your kid to the doctor's

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appointment, the appointment is set and they say, wow, 12 o'clock is the only time we have.

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I can't go.

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I have a vet appointment with my pet at 12 noon.

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I can't make it.

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And to be honest, it's your life.

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Everything is negotiable.

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The doctor's visit for your kid, the vet appointment for your pet, it's all negotiable.

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But which are you going to negotiate out of and which are you going to be consistent about

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keeping?

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The commitment you make to yourself may be the most important commitment you make ever.

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More important than your commitment to a mentor, more important than your commitment to an

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institution, more important than your commitment to any program of study or anything at all.

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The commitment you make with yourself that you honor is so important because every time

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you honor a commitment to yourself, you make a statement to yourself and to the universe

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that you are the kind of person who honors commitments to you.

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Every time you make a commitment to yourself and you honor it, you are making a declaration

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first to yourself and to the universe.

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You're the kind of person who keeps commitments with yourself.

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And that is so important.

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If you're going to be the kind of person who leads a research program of any stature, you've

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got to be the kind of person who keeps commitments to yourself no matter what's happening in

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the world.

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I keep commitments to myself.

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You make this meeting.

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You put this meeting on your calendar.

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You make this appointment with yourself.

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Honor the appointment every time.

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Okay, number five.

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Create a plan for your writing.

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Yes, create a strategic plan for your writing.

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Now, I didn't start with the plan.

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And you know, to be honest, if you're a physician, if you're a clinician, you're a planner, you

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know how to get things done.

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If you didn't know before your intern year probably taught you, you're like, here's a

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checklist and I check the boxes.

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Oh, I love checking boxes.

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So you know how to make a plan.

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But I didn't ask you in your writing, I didn't ask you to start with a plan.

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I asked you to start with a habit.

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established.

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Because what happens is your writing is that you start to get your projects done.

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And when you feel like you have nothing to write, then you break your habit.

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And it's hard to come back to it.

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And when you don't have anything to write, then sometimes you have a temptation to say,

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well, I have nothing to write.

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I can take a break today.

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But you do have something to write.

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You just don't know what it is.

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And so by creating a strategic plan for your writing, you're like, I'm looking forward

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to the next three months.

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This is what I want to accomplish.

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This manuscript, I would like to revise it and resubmit it.

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I'd like to start this proposal that's due in four months.

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I'd like to do this.

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Have a plan.

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Have a plan.

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Create a plan.

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And so you already know.

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You're already writing every day.

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It's already on your schedule.

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And now you know exactly what goes into that schedule.

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You're not twiddling your thumb saying, hmm, I guess I have 33 minutes.

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You don't.

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You don't have 33 minutes.

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If you're going to be a clinician scientist, you never have 33 minutes.

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Because your time is always spoken for because you create a strategic plan.

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And it's not spoken for because somebody else is taking up your time.

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It's spoken for because you created a plan for your own time.

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Create a strategic plan for your writing.

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And what it allows you to do is not guess, what should I write today?

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And then you spend your 30 minutes of writing time or your 20 minutes of writing time imagining

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how or what you could write about.

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Don't do that.

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Do the plan early.

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And then when it's time to write, do the writing.

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All right.

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Have a weekly plan.

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OK.

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You have the overarching plan.

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I'm going to submit this proposal three, four months from now.

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Great.

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I love that you have a strategic plan for the next three months.

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What are you doing every week?

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So you've got to have a weekly plan.

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Tuesday, the day of the week, usually the beginning of the week makes sense.

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Maybe a Sunday night, maybe a Sunday morning, maybe a Monday morning, maybe even a Friday

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evening.

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What am I going to accomplish in my 30 minutes, 40 minutes, 45 minutes of writing next week?

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Monday, I have a block at 12.

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I'm going to write the introduction.

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Tuesday, I have a block at 10 a.m.

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I'm going to make sure I revise the methods.

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Wednesday, hmm, Wednesday, the block I have is after my clinic.

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I'm going to be super tired.

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How about I update the citations on Wednesday?

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Thursday.

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Wow.

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Thursday, I actually have two hours for writing.

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How about I write the discussion?

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That's the hardest part for me.

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What do I do Friday?

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I like Friday to be a light day.

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It's an administrative day, so I don't want to take up the whole day writing.

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How about I format the manuscript for submission?

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You've got a plan for the week.

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And guess what?

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By the week you turn around, the manuscript is mostly written because you planned for

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it.

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And then you can look forward to the next week and say, OK, what am I going to do next

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week?

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And before you come to next week, you already have a plan for that next week that comes

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from the strategic plan, the overarching plan that you have for yourself.

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Number six is plan your weekly writing schedule.

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All right.

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What about number seven?

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Number seven, get accountability.

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OK, all this sounds good, but are you accountable?

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Who?

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Who are you accountable to?

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Well, I'm accountable to myself.

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I trust myself.

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You do, because we've established that you're the kind of person who keeps commitments with

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yourself and you're human.

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So how do we account for the human factor?

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I'm like, oh, I'm so tired.

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Oh, my gosh.

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I mean, my clinic yesterday was so hard.

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I deserve a break today.

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You know what?

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I deserve a break for three days.

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That's how hard the clinic was.

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Who is holding you accountable to getting the work done?

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You need accountability.

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If you're a robot, maybe you don't need accountability.

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If you're a human being, you get tired, you get weary.

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People ask you to do things and you want to make them happy and you say yes.

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And invariably, your whole plan to finish this manuscript in a week goes out of the

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window and you got no writing done.

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Who says, hey, Dr. Lemmona, I saw that this was your plan, but you didn't accomplish it.

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How come?

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Who asks you the hard questions?

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You do need accountability.

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This whole system, this whole structure of tripling your productivity only happens well

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if there's somebody to hold you accountable.

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How do you get that accountability?

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Well, you can get it in your peers around you who are working towards the same goals.

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You can get it in a near peer who's already doing all the writing and tripling their productivity.

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You can get it from a mentor, possibly, if you feel confident, if your research mentor

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is that kind of person who would care actually about your daily writing productivity.

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Or you can get it from a coaching group.

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This is where I tell people that you want to be part of a group that holds you accountable

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to the goals you set for yourself.

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That's what our coaching programs help people do.

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that get you maximum productivity.

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What does it do for you?

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Writing every day creates a positive feedback loop and you're kind of creating a vacuum

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because the more you write, the more you want to write.

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The more you write, the more you see the fruits of your writing and the more you see the products

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of your writing, the more you want those products.

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It's like you get what you measure, you get what you invest in.

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The more you invest, the more you see returns on your investment, the more you want to invest.

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It really creates a positive feedback loop.

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So you're like, wow, I got those three manuscripts submitted within three months.

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Holy cow, what else can I write?

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And then you start working and saying, wow, there's this other manuscript that I had

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abandoned for the last three years.

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Okay, well, my mentor doesn't have any writing projects for me.

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How about I write up this patient that I saw in the clinic?

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Oh, wow.

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How about this other writing?

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All of a sudden you start to find writing projects that you didn't even remember existed.

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You start to make up writing projects.

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And I don't mean you're making up a writing project, but you start to look for the data

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that allows you to create product, that allows you to submit manuscripts.

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So honestly, this daily writing habit is a keystone habit because it really helps you

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just produce more and more writing.

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It's really awesome.

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It also helps you think about every project you do in terms of productivity.

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So you now stop doing projects that you're like, well, I hope that leads to a publication

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seven years from now.

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You stop that.

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You say, I'm about to commit to this group.

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What will it get me in terms of my writing productivity?

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And what it does for you too is it starts to move you away from the people who don't

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get to writing productivity.

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They say, oh, yeah, we're going to publish this at the end.

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Seven months later, no one started the project.

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Eight months later, wow, what's going on with this project?

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Oh, I haven't had time.

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You start to value your time spent in activities that do not produce more writing.

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That's what a writing habit does for you.

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And the third thing a writing habit does for you is it forces you to become the leader

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of your own writing journey.

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So you start out and you're depending on a mentor to give you writing projects, to

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feed you writing projects all the time.

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But you become someone who produces writing every day.

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And you start to ask yourself, well, what writing projects can I lead for myself?

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That's where you get to become a first author consistently.

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That's where you start to become a senior author consistently.

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Because the more writing projects you create, the more opportunities you create for other

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people to come in and be a part of that writing.

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Yes, you create opportunity for trainees to be part of your writing because of your writing.

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A daily writing habit is a keystone habit.

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And therefore, I invite you to start writing every day.

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Don't ask, what do I write?

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Don't ask that yet.

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Just start the habit five days a week.

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Be the kind of person who honors their commitment to write every day.

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Don't miss a day for the rest of this week.

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And if you accomplish that, send me a DM.

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I'm on Facebook.

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I'm on LinkedIn.

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I'm on Instagram.

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You can drop me a message or even a voicemail on our podcast website, clinicianresearcherpodcast.com.

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Send me a message.

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I want to hear about your success writing consistently for even just the next five days.

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What would it look like if you wrote for 30 minutes every day, just five days a week,

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four weeks a month?

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At the end of the year, you would have consistently produced 120 hours of writing, no matter how

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busy your clinical schedule is.

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What kind of win would that create for you?

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You would have consistently submitted 120 hours worth of manuscripts.

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What could that do for your career as you transition from clinician to clinician scientist?

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That would be super awesome.

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So, if this episode's been helpful to you, if somebody else could use information that

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triples their writing productivity, please share it with them.

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I'm asking you today to subscribe to our show and to give us a five-star rating because

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it helps other people find us.

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More clinicians need this information, but they can make the transition for themselves.

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I ask you to share it with them.

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It's been a pleasure talking with you.

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I'll talk with you again next time.

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Thanks for listening to this episode of the Clinician Researcher Podcast, where academic

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clinicians learn the skills to build their own research program, whether or not they

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have a mentor.

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If you found the information in this episode to be helpful, don't keep it all to yourself.

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