The superpower that transforms your career

1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,860 Welcome to the Clinician Researcher podcast, where academic clinicians learn the skills 2 00:00:05,860 --> 00:00:11,260 to build their own research program, whether or not they have a mentor. 3 00:00:11,260 --> 00:00:17,340 As clinicians, we spend a decade or more as trainees learning to take care of patients. 4 00:00:17,340 --> 00:00:22,380 When we finally start our careers, we want to build research programs, but then we find 5 00:00:22,380 --> 00:00:27,780 that our years of clinical training did not adequately prepare us to lead our research 6 00:00:27,780 --> 00:00:29,180 program. 7 00:00:29,180 --> 00:00:35,480 Through no fault of our own, we struggle to find mentors, and when we can't, we quit. 8 00:00:35,480 --> 00:00:40,580 However, clinicians hold the keys to the greatest research breakthroughs. 9 00:00:40,580 --> 00:00:46,200 For this reason, the Clinician Researcher podcast exists to give academic clinicians 10 00:00:46,200 --> 00:00:51,800 the tools to build their own research program, whether or not they have a mentor. 11 00:00:51,800 --> 00:01:01,260 Now introducing your host, Toyosi Onwuemene. 12 00:01:01,260 --> 00:01:03,100 Welcome to the Clinician Researcher podcast. 13 00:01:03,100 --> 00:01:07,580 I'm your host, Toyosi Onwuemene, and it is an absolute pleasure to be talking with you 14 00:01:07,580 --> 00:01:08,580 today. 15 00:01:08,580 --> 00:01:11,820 I'm talking to you today about your superpower. 16 00:01:11,820 --> 00:01:20,820 Yes, you have a superpower that you can leverage to accelerate your research career, and I 17 00:01:20,820 --> 00:01:26,180 want to share that superpower with you right now because I think that sometimes we feel 18 00:01:26,180 --> 00:01:30,180 like we're powerless, but we actually have superpowers that we can tap into, and I want 19 00:01:30,180 --> 00:01:31,580 to share with you what they are. 20 00:01:31,580 --> 00:01:38,620 But before I share it with you, I want to just remind you about superheroes, right? 21 00:01:38,620 --> 00:01:43,580 So superheroes have superpowers, and I love that we are in an age, actually, to be honest, 22 00:01:43,580 --> 00:01:47,900 we've always been in the age where there are superheroes, and they've been on display 23 00:01:47,900 --> 00:01:49,140 for the longest of times. 24 00:01:49,140 --> 00:01:54,620 But I feel like we're in a space now where there's just an onslaught of superheroes with 25 00:01:54,620 --> 00:01:58,500 amazing powers, and it's like, oh my gosh, I can't believe the superhero has this power 26 00:01:58,500 --> 00:01:59,980 and then that power. 27 00:01:59,980 --> 00:02:04,220 But anyway, superheroes are amazing because they have superpowers. 28 00:02:04,220 --> 00:02:08,380 But here's the thing about superheroes that is really important is that although they 29 00:02:08,380 --> 00:02:14,260 can have superhuman strength, maybe they have the ability to fly like Superman, they also 30 00:02:14,260 --> 00:02:15,260 have weaknesses. 31 00:02:15,260 --> 00:02:20,780 Okay, so let's use Superman as the quintessential superhero. 32 00:02:20,780 --> 00:02:22,540 And I know he may not be your favorite superhero. 33 00:02:22,540 --> 00:02:25,580 I just want you to understand that this is not about favorites. 34 00:02:25,580 --> 00:02:30,180 This is just about illustrating an example so that I can show you how you leverage your 35 00:02:30,180 --> 00:02:32,900 superpower and avoid your weaknesses. 36 00:02:32,900 --> 00:02:37,900 Okay, so superheroes, and we're using Superman as an example, have superpowers. 37 00:02:37,900 --> 00:02:39,860 And they usually don't just have one superpower. 38 00:02:39,860 --> 00:02:42,460 They usually have like a group of superpowers. 39 00:02:42,460 --> 00:02:48,940 Like if maybe they have, you know, Superman, again, as our example, has incredible, incredible 40 00:02:48,940 --> 00:02:49,940 vision. 41 00:02:49,940 --> 00:02:52,900 He can fly and he has superhuman strength. 42 00:02:52,900 --> 00:02:57,760 So let's just take those three, those three powers. 43 00:02:57,760 --> 00:03:01,160 But Superman also has a big weakness. 44 00:03:01,160 --> 00:03:02,420 It's kryptonite. 45 00:03:02,420 --> 00:03:07,700 And every time that Superman is exposed to kryptonite, he just withers. 46 00:03:07,700 --> 00:03:10,400 He just cannot do anything. 47 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:13,660 Like all of his superpowers just crumble. 48 00:03:13,660 --> 00:03:15,900 It's like he's an ordinary person. 49 00:03:15,900 --> 00:03:19,780 And if care is not taken, the kryptonite will extinguish Superman, right? 50 00:03:19,780 --> 00:03:24,780 Okay, so this is really important to recognize that this whole concept of the superhero is 51 00:03:24,780 --> 00:03:29,140 about someone who has incredible powers in one area, but then they have a weakness. 52 00:03:29,140 --> 00:03:30,660 It's not just a weakness. 53 00:03:30,660 --> 00:03:34,900 It's a weakness that could potentially just completely take away all their superpowers, 54 00:03:34,900 --> 00:03:39,220 make them all irrelevant, but also weakness that could kill them. 55 00:03:39,220 --> 00:03:41,860 Okay, now this is all metaphorical. 56 00:03:41,860 --> 00:03:46,100 I know you're like, I'm no superhero, but I want you to just work with me here as I 57 00:03:46,100 --> 00:03:48,180 show you your superpowers. 58 00:03:48,180 --> 00:03:54,300 And I also show you what to do with your weaknesses, your superhero weaknesses, and show you how 59 00:03:54,300 --> 00:03:58,940 to manage them so that they don't crush your superpowers, but also so that they don't kill 60 00:03:58,940 --> 00:04:00,700 your research career. 61 00:04:00,700 --> 00:04:01,700 And I do mean that. 62 00:04:01,700 --> 00:04:05,820 So you're really talking about the superpowers you have in your research career. 63 00:04:05,820 --> 00:04:07,820 Okay, what are those superpowers? 64 00:04:07,820 --> 00:04:10,020 Who is the superpower? 65 00:04:10,020 --> 00:04:14,380 Okay, are you ready? 66 00:04:14,380 --> 00:04:25,220 Your superpower is your, the power to matrices. 67 00:04:25,220 --> 00:04:30,540 Your power to choose is your one superpower. 68 00:04:30,540 --> 00:04:33,900 It gives you control. 69 00:04:33,900 --> 00:04:39,780 You have things that you control through your superpower of choice. 70 00:04:39,780 --> 00:04:47,420 And it's just the one superpower of choice, but it gives you so many, so many powers come 71 00:04:47,420 --> 00:04:53,400 out of that superpower because you can do whatever you choose if it's the thing that's 72 00:04:53,400 --> 00:04:55,340 supported by your superpower. 73 00:04:55,340 --> 00:04:59,260 Okay, so that's your superpower is your power of choice. 74 00:04:59,260 --> 00:05:07,460 Your weakness is your weaknesses when you try to control the things that you have no 75 00:05:07,460 --> 00:05:10,740 superpower over. 76 00:05:10,740 --> 00:05:15,740 Your weakness is when you try to control the things that you have no power over. 77 00:05:15,740 --> 00:05:17,940 So the things you're not in control of. 78 00:05:17,940 --> 00:05:23,340 And the problem with them as weaknesses is that they will come and affect all your superpowers 79 00:05:23,340 --> 00:05:27,580 because instead of choosing the things you have control over, you're focusing on the 80 00:05:27,580 --> 00:05:31,660 things you have no control over, it'll like drain all your powers and the choices that 81 00:05:31,660 --> 00:05:33,340 you're making otherwise. 82 00:05:33,340 --> 00:05:39,180 And it may even kill, derail, squish your research career. 83 00:05:39,180 --> 00:05:41,140 Let's talk about it. 84 00:05:41,140 --> 00:05:42,140 Okay. 85 00:05:42,140 --> 00:05:47,180 Think about the fact that there are very few things in life we really control. 86 00:05:47,180 --> 00:05:49,620 There are very, very, very few things that we control. 87 00:05:49,620 --> 00:05:51,860 We actually don't even control our own breathing. 88 00:05:51,860 --> 00:05:56,740 I mean, we can, we can interrupt our breathing, but we're breathing when we're sleeping and 89 00:05:56,740 --> 00:05:58,300 we're not in control of that, right? 90 00:05:58,300 --> 00:06:03,340 So there are many automatic processes that we're not in control of, but the one that 91 00:06:03,340 --> 00:06:07,340 we are the most in control of is our conscious thought. 92 00:06:07,340 --> 00:06:11,700 That is our superpower is our conscious thought. 93 00:06:11,700 --> 00:06:14,180 We use our conscious thought to move our bodies. 94 00:06:14,180 --> 00:06:16,580 These are conscious thought to make decisions. 95 00:06:16,580 --> 00:06:19,380 These are conscious thought from motor skills. 96 00:06:19,380 --> 00:06:21,540 We use our conscious thought. 97 00:06:21,540 --> 00:06:27,660 And so it is so powerful because the moment we say I choose this, right? 98 00:06:27,660 --> 00:06:33,280 I exercise power over my will so that I, that's a superpower. 99 00:06:33,280 --> 00:06:36,620 And I know you've looked at it and you're like, well, yeah, but so does everybody. 100 00:06:36,620 --> 00:06:38,980 I just want you to focus now, focus on you. 101 00:06:38,980 --> 00:06:44,380 Cause it's very easy to just start to compare yourself with other people and then lose track 102 00:06:44,380 --> 00:06:45,380 of where you are. 103 00:06:45,380 --> 00:06:46,380 We're just talking about you. 104 00:06:46,380 --> 00:06:47,380 Please. 105 00:06:47,380 --> 00:06:49,540 Just all eyes on you right now. 106 00:06:49,540 --> 00:06:56,260 You have a superpower in your ability to control your will and therefore the choices that you 107 00:06:56,260 --> 00:06:57,980 make. 108 00:06:57,980 --> 00:07:05,500 You have control over the ability to, to control your will and therefore the choices that you 109 00:07:05,500 --> 00:07:07,700 make. 110 00:07:07,700 --> 00:07:13,540 You do not have control over the choices that other people make. 111 00:07:13,540 --> 00:07:19,740 And anytime you leave controlling the things you control, that's your will, the choices 112 00:07:19,740 --> 00:07:26,020 you make to focus on the choices other people make, it is kryptonite to you. 113 00:07:26,020 --> 00:07:30,700 Because you have no power, no control over other people's choices. 114 00:07:30,700 --> 00:07:36,260 If you are overwhelmed with situations in which you are trying to control other people's 115 00:07:36,260 --> 00:07:42,980 choices, it diminishes your power to make your own choices and it extinguishes the work 116 00:07:42,980 --> 00:07:45,540 you're supposed to be doing. 117 00:07:45,540 --> 00:07:47,700 So I want to share with you what you control. 118 00:07:47,700 --> 00:07:50,020 There are many things you control. 119 00:07:50,020 --> 00:07:54,500 You're pretty super amazing human, but I'm focused right now on the things you control 120 00:07:54,500 --> 00:07:56,580 that advance your research career. 121 00:07:56,580 --> 00:08:03,060 Remember the thing you control is your will and the power to choose. 122 00:08:03,060 --> 00:08:05,880 I control my will, therefore I choose. 123 00:08:05,880 --> 00:08:08,140 I control my will, therefore I choose. 124 00:08:08,140 --> 00:08:09,140 Right? 125 00:08:09,140 --> 00:08:10,140 Okay. 126 00:08:10,140 --> 00:08:12,100 So what, what do you have control over? 127 00:08:12,100 --> 00:08:18,020 So first of all, the thing you have control over are your thoughts. 128 00:08:18,020 --> 00:08:19,580 Yeah. 129 00:08:19,580 --> 00:08:21,620 You control the thoughts you think. 130 00:08:21,620 --> 00:08:26,340 I know sometimes your thoughts just run away and many times they head in a downward spiral 131 00:08:26,340 --> 00:08:28,820 and they're just on their way somewhere and it's like, wait a minute, when did you get 132 00:08:28,820 --> 00:08:29,820 your thought? 133 00:08:29,820 --> 00:08:36,340 But you control the thoughts that you have and the way you think about your career. 134 00:08:36,340 --> 00:08:40,520 You control your thoughts and your thoughts drive your career. 135 00:08:40,520 --> 00:08:44,500 Therefore you control the way you think about your career. 136 00:08:44,500 --> 00:08:47,200 Now where do we usually go with our thoughts? 137 00:08:47,200 --> 00:08:48,700 Usually we don't discipline our thoughts. 138 00:08:48,700 --> 00:08:51,020 We just let our thoughts do whatever. 139 00:08:51,020 --> 00:08:55,000 And for every thought, every thought is like a wayward child. 140 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:56,900 They will keep running away. 141 00:08:56,900 --> 00:09:02,300 And there are different ways in which parents try to tame those wayward children, those 142 00:09:02,300 --> 00:09:04,660 toddlers who are running away. 143 00:09:04,660 --> 00:09:06,100 Sometimes parents will get a leash. 144 00:09:06,100 --> 00:09:08,160 I don't necessarily advocate for a leash. 145 00:09:08,160 --> 00:09:12,980 I'm just saying that there are different ways of keeping this wayward thought train in check. 146 00:09:12,980 --> 00:09:15,580 You got to figure out what works for you. 147 00:09:15,580 --> 00:09:19,700 Some parents get a leash, but some parents discipline their children. 148 00:09:19,700 --> 00:09:24,780 They teach their children the discipline of staying within the range of mom or staying 149 00:09:24,780 --> 00:09:26,860 within the range of mom and dad. 150 00:09:26,860 --> 00:09:28,940 They teach their children the discipline. 151 00:09:28,940 --> 00:09:30,560 So you choose. 152 00:09:30,560 --> 00:09:35,220 You can either have a leash for your thoughts or you can discipline your thoughts so that 153 00:09:35,220 --> 00:09:41,540 they don't think outside of the range that does not support your forward motion. 154 00:09:41,540 --> 00:09:43,660 What do I mean by that? 155 00:09:43,660 --> 00:09:46,460 You have had thoughts of, I'm never going to succeed. 156 00:09:46,460 --> 00:09:47,600 I'm never going to win. 157 00:09:47,600 --> 00:09:49,820 This research is never going to amount to nothing. 158 00:09:49,820 --> 00:09:51,140 I'm going to wake up and be embarrassed. 159 00:09:51,140 --> 00:09:52,140 I'm going to be so ashamed. 160 00:09:52,140 --> 00:09:54,180 Someone's going to scoop me. 161 00:09:54,180 --> 00:09:56,180 You've had those thoughts. 162 00:09:56,180 --> 00:09:57,660 Do they serve you? 163 00:09:57,660 --> 00:09:58,660 No. 164 00:09:58,660 --> 00:10:01,700 They mostly don't serve you. 165 00:10:01,700 --> 00:10:03,500 You might be like, oh no, they motivate me. 166 00:10:03,500 --> 00:10:04,500 Like, I don't know. 167 00:10:04,500 --> 00:10:06,900 I don't know if I would agree with that. 168 00:10:06,900 --> 00:10:10,780 Do those thoughts motivate you or are they actually demotivating? 169 00:10:10,780 --> 00:10:14,140 Because when you said you didn't think you could make that grant deadline, guess what 170 00:10:14,140 --> 00:10:15,140 you did. 171 00:10:15,140 --> 00:10:16,300 You stopped trying. 172 00:10:16,300 --> 00:10:19,580 And then you didn't make the grant deadline. 173 00:10:19,580 --> 00:10:21,180 So I don't know if that thought was serving you. 174 00:10:21,180 --> 00:10:25,460 You're like, well, you know, it made me recognize that I needed to do better. 175 00:10:25,460 --> 00:10:26,460 Maybe. 176 00:10:26,460 --> 00:10:27,940 Maybe that was it. 177 00:10:27,940 --> 00:10:28,940 Maybe. 178 00:10:28,940 --> 00:10:32,220 Maybe your discipline thought life told you it was unrealistic. 179 00:10:32,220 --> 00:10:40,340 But maybe what it did was it gave you permission and it gave you the excuse to stop trying. 180 00:10:40,340 --> 00:10:45,300 And so I want you to think differently about your thoughts because you control the thoughts 181 00:10:45,300 --> 00:10:46,300 you think. 182 00:10:46,300 --> 00:10:49,100 And yeah, thoughts can come into your mind where you're like, wait, wait, wait, wait, 183 00:10:49,100 --> 00:10:50,100 wait, wait, wait, wait. 184 00:10:50,100 --> 00:10:51,100 Where did that thought come from? 185 00:10:51,100 --> 00:10:52,100 They happen. 186 00:10:52,100 --> 00:10:53,900 That does happen. 187 00:10:53,900 --> 00:11:02,540 But you have the power to catch the thought, pause it, and then let it go. 188 00:11:02,540 --> 00:11:05,580 Say, oh, no, I'm not thinking about this not succeeding. 189 00:11:05,580 --> 00:11:07,700 I'm not going to do that. 190 00:11:07,700 --> 00:11:12,700 And so I want to invite you to catch your thoughts about your research. 191 00:11:12,700 --> 00:11:14,980 What thoughts are you constantly thinking? 192 00:11:14,980 --> 00:11:17,120 And how do you change those thoughts? 193 00:11:17,120 --> 00:11:22,020 How do you change from, oh, no, this is never going to work to this is guaranteed to be 194 00:11:22,020 --> 00:11:23,420 successful? 195 00:11:23,420 --> 00:11:24,800 Because here's what happens. 196 00:11:24,800 --> 00:11:29,900 When you think this is guaranteed not to work, you start producing actions that guarantee 197 00:11:29,900 --> 00:11:32,180 things not working. 198 00:11:32,180 --> 00:11:34,060 I guarantee this is not going to work. 199 00:11:34,060 --> 00:11:39,020 So when you go in to talk to the mentors, your attitude, that's self-the-mentor. 200 00:11:39,020 --> 00:11:40,020 And they're like, I don't want to work with you. 201 00:11:40,020 --> 00:11:41,020 I mean, like, there you go. 202 00:11:41,020 --> 00:11:42,020 I knew it. 203 00:11:42,020 --> 00:11:44,020 I knew it wasn't going to work. 204 00:11:44,020 --> 00:11:45,580 Well, you made sure. 205 00:11:45,580 --> 00:11:49,740 So of course you knew it because your thoughts produce the actions that guaranteed that 206 00:11:49,740 --> 00:11:50,740 outcome. 207 00:11:50,740 --> 00:11:54,860 So that's one way that your thought life may not have been serving you in your research. 208 00:11:54,860 --> 00:11:59,060 But when you thought, hey, this is going to work, you went up to the mentor and you're 209 00:11:59,060 --> 00:12:00,900 like, OK, I need you to mentor me in this thing. 210 00:12:00,900 --> 00:12:02,620 And the mentor is like, I don't have time for you. 211 00:12:02,620 --> 00:12:04,380 You're like, this is going to work. 212 00:12:04,380 --> 00:12:05,900 Mentor, you're going to have time for me. 213 00:12:05,900 --> 00:12:09,940 And you have bugging the mentor until the mentor was like, you know what, 30 minutes 214 00:12:09,940 --> 00:12:10,940 on Monday. 215 00:12:10,940 --> 00:12:11,940 And then will you leave me alone forever? 216 00:12:11,940 --> 00:12:13,660 And you're like, yeah, of course. 217 00:12:13,660 --> 00:12:15,940 And then you're like, oh, I knew it was going to work. 218 00:12:15,940 --> 00:12:17,260 And it worked. 219 00:12:17,260 --> 00:12:22,500 Because you knew it was going to work, you put in the actions that led you to make it 220 00:12:22,500 --> 00:12:23,500 work. 221 00:12:23,500 --> 00:12:26,940 Do you see how these thoughts work for or against us? 222 00:12:26,940 --> 00:12:33,380 And so if all of your life you have been using your thoughts in your research to decide that 223 00:12:33,380 --> 00:12:38,220 it's not going to work and therefore create the actions that make it not work, what if 224 00:12:38,220 --> 00:12:43,380 you used your thoughts intentionally to serve your research? 225 00:12:43,380 --> 00:12:47,700 Because when you say this is going to work, then you start to ask yourself, well, how 226 00:12:47,700 --> 00:12:48,980 can I make it work? 227 00:12:48,980 --> 00:12:52,500 And then you start to produce the actions that lead to it working. 228 00:12:52,500 --> 00:12:55,200 And then you really enhance your research career. 229 00:12:55,200 --> 00:13:00,220 And so I know that you may be surrounded by people who use their thoughts to destroy everything, 230 00:13:00,220 --> 00:13:02,900 who say it's never going to work, it's going to be awful. 231 00:13:02,900 --> 00:13:07,700 And you know how inspired you get around people like that. 232 00:13:07,700 --> 00:13:09,380 Not very much. 233 00:13:09,380 --> 00:13:15,700 And so what you've got to do is to move away from anybody who changes your thoughts such 234 00:13:15,700 --> 00:13:19,700 that they are not thoughts that serve your career. 235 00:13:19,700 --> 00:13:22,700 Now if you don't want to succeed as a research researcher, it's okay to have thoughts about 236 00:13:22,700 --> 00:13:25,460 not succeeding because you don't want to. 237 00:13:25,460 --> 00:13:29,380 But because you are someone who wants to lead research, because you're someone who wants 238 00:13:29,380 --> 00:13:34,460 to be successful in your scholarship, and the only thoughts that make sense are thoughts 239 00:13:34,460 --> 00:13:36,380 that allow you to achieve that. 240 00:13:36,380 --> 00:13:40,020 Thoughts that say this research project is going to work, because then it helps you figure 241 00:13:40,020 --> 00:13:42,460 out how to make it work. 242 00:13:42,460 --> 00:13:46,420 Because what you may be thinking is that in its current format it may not work, but because 243 00:13:46,420 --> 00:13:51,660 this whole program is going to work, do what it takes, I'm going to make it work. 244 00:13:51,660 --> 00:13:53,140 You're able to do that. 245 00:13:53,140 --> 00:14:00,020 And I invite you to take control of your thoughts about your research career and discipline 246 00:14:00,020 --> 00:14:06,700 them to be thoughts that enhance your forward motion. 247 00:14:06,700 --> 00:14:10,540 Now I don't tell you that disciplining your thoughts is going to be easy, but I'm telling 248 00:14:10,540 --> 00:14:14,100 you that you control the thoughts you think. 249 00:14:14,100 --> 00:14:22,820 And I'm inviting you to take the steps needed to take control. 250 00:14:22,820 --> 00:14:24,460 You are in control of your thoughts. 251 00:14:24,460 --> 00:14:26,180 That's number one. 252 00:14:26,180 --> 00:14:32,500 Number two is that you control the way you spend your time. 253 00:14:32,500 --> 00:14:36,380 I want to say that one again, because sometimes it feels like a surprise to people. 254 00:14:36,380 --> 00:14:39,780 It's like, wait a minute, I control the way I spend my time? 255 00:14:39,780 --> 00:14:40,780 Yes you do. 256 00:14:40,780 --> 00:14:44,740 Okay, so maybe you're 80% clinical. 257 00:14:44,740 --> 00:14:49,460 That means you have clinic Monday, morning and afternoon, Tuesday, morning and afternoon. 258 00:14:49,460 --> 00:14:51,140 Maybe you have clinic every day except Friday. 259 00:14:51,140 --> 00:14:52,140 Okay. 260 00:14:52,140 --> 00:14:55,540 But you're in control of how you use that time. 261 00:14:55,540 --> 00:14:57,780 You're like, oh no, no, no, my patients are in control. 262 00:14:57,780 --> 00:14:58,780 They're not. 263 00:14:58,780 --> 00:15:03,340 The patients may be scheduled at eight o'clock, but you're in control of how you manage those 264 00:15:03,340 --> 00:15:06,980 15 minutes in which they are scheduled. 265 00:15:06,980 --> 00:15:10,740 Do you spend time outside of the exam room looking them up before you go in? 266 00:15:10,740 --> 00:15:12,620 You choose that. 267 00:15:12,620 --> 00:15:16,220 Do you go in the room and then look at the computer while also talking with them? 268 00:15:16,220 --> 00:15:18,020 You choose that. 269 00:15:18,020 --> 00:15:20,880 Do you go in already having written the note? 270 00:15:20,880 --> 00:15:22,780 You choose that. 271 00:15:22,780 --> 00:15:27,500 You are in control of the way you spend your time. 272 00:15:27,500 --> 00:15:31,140 You're in control of how much time you spend writing notes. 273 00:15:31,140 --> 00:15:41,300 You're in control of how much you allow the environment to interrupt your work. 274 00:15:41,300 --> 00:15:45,500 Maybe you keep getting interrupted in your flow of thought. 275 00:15:45,500 --> 00:15:51,680 You're in control of getting up and going to another location, closing the door, making 276 00:15:51,680 --> 00:15:53,340 sure nobody interrupts you. 277 00:15:53,340 --> 00:15:56,020 So you're in control of the way you spend your time. 278 00:15:56,020 --> 00:16:01,380 Even when your time is spoken for, you're in control of how that time shows up for you. 279 00:16:01,380 --> 00:16:05,900 Similarly, you are in control of the time spent for your research and writing. 280 00:16:05,900 --> 00:16:06,900 You're in control of that. 281 00:16:06,900 --> 00:16:08,900 You're like, well, I have clinic four days a week. 282 00:16:08,900 --> 00:16:11,020 And you do not have clinic on Friday. 283 00:16:11,020 --> 00:16:12,900 Well, I have administrative tasks. 284 00:16:12,900 --> 00:16:13,900 That's fine. 285 00:16:13,900 --> 00:16:17,180 You are in control of the way you spend that time. 286 00:16:17,180 --> 00:16:22,220 I just need to remind you of your power because you are a superhero who is not maximizing 287 00:16:22,220 --> 00:16:23,220 their superpowers. 288 00:16:23,220 --> 00:16:25,660 And that's why we need to talk about your superhereness. 289 00:16:25,660 --> 00:16:28,700 You cannot be a superhero if you're not using your superpowers. 290 00:16:28,700 --> 00:16:32,860 And one of your superpowers is controlling the way you spend their time. 291 00:16:32,860 --> 00:16:38,540 I'm inviting you to step into your superpower and to stop saying, I have no choice. 292 00:16:38,540 --> 00:16:39,540 I have no choice. 293 00:16:39,540 --> 00:16:40,820 I have to do this. 294 00:16:40,820 --> 00:16:41,820 Oh my goodness. 295 00:16:41,820 --> 00:16:47,100 If I don't do it, nothing will happen if you don't do it because you have a choice. 296 00:16:47,100 --> 00:16:50,780 Maybe something happens, but you're still choosing. 297 00:16:50,780 --> 00:16:55,360 And you are in control of these choices you make. 298 00:16:55,360 --> 00:17:00,060 You are in control of the way you use your time. 299 00:17:00,060 --> 00:17:06,460 You are in control of whether you spend all three days catching up on notes from your 300 00:17:06,460 --> 00:17:12,220 clinic on Monday or whether your notes are done by the end of the day. 301 00:17:12,220 --> 00:17:16,900 You are in control of the way you spend your time. 302 00:17:16,900 --> 00:17:21,540 You are in control of whether you use three hours to write one note or whether you condense 303 00:17:21,540 --> 00:17:23,980 it into 20 minutes. 304 00:17:23,980 --> 00:17:29,580 You are in control of the way you spend your time. 305 00:17:29,580 --> 00:17:34,540 That's the superpower that I am excited to see you take advantage of. 306 00:17:34,540 --> 00:17:35,540 Okay. 307 00:17:35,540 --> 00:17:38,060 Number three superpower. 308 00:17:38,060 --> 00:17:39,060 I like this one. 309 00:17:39,060 --> 00:17:43,940 You are in control of your schedule. 310 00:17:43,940 --> 00:17:47,260 You are in control of your calendar. 311 00:17:47,260 --> 00:17:50,100 Now you may say, well, the child has soccer at 3 PM. 312 00:17:50,100 --> 00:17:52,340 What do you mean I control my schedule? 313 00:17:52,340 --> 00:17:57,900 You control your schedule because you're choosing to take your child to the soccer game. 314 00:17:57,900 --> 00:17:58,900 You choose. 315 00:17:58,900 --> 00:18:00,340 You put that on the schedule you chose. 316 00:18:00,340 --> 00:18:03,220 Like, well, I can't control when the game is. 317 00:18:03,220 --> 00:18:08,140 You choose what's on your schedule even if you are not in control of the game. 318 00:18:08,140 --> 00:18:12,500 You could say, daughter, we're not playing soccer today. 319 00:18:12,500 --> 00:18:14,220 You don't want to make that choice. 320 00:18:14,220 --> 00:18:17,220 But you are in control of doing that if you choose. 321 00:18:17,220 --> 00:18:21,300 Or you could say, daughter, you got to go to your soccer game, but I choose not to be 322 00:18:21,300 --> 00:18:23,940 there because I'm taking it off my schedule. 323 00:18:23,940 --> 00:18:25,620 You could do that. 324 00:18:25,620 --> 00:18:29,660 And then you could choose to pay somebody to show up there or you could choose to invite 325 00:18:29,660 --> 00:18:32,740 a family member to show up for the soccer game. 326 00:18:32,740 --> 00:18:36,340 But you are in control of that calendar. 327 00:18:36,340 --> 00:18:40,100 You are actually also in control of your clinic calendar. 328 00:18:40,100 --> 00:18:42,660 And so you're like, oh, no, there are 16 patients scheduled. 329 00:18:42,660 --> 00:18:44,140 I do not control that. 330 00:18:44,140 --> 00:18:46,340 Yes, there are 16 patients scheduled. 331 00:18:46,340 --> 00:18:52,900 But if you wake up with a fever and you're retching, guess what happens to that schedule? 332 00:18:52,900 --> 00:18:59,680 It gets cleared pretty quickly because you control your calendar. 333 00:18:59,680 --> 00:19:01,780 And so it's really important that I share. 334 00:19:01,780 --> 00:19:07,760 I really feel like it's important for me to emphasize this because you may not want to 335 00:19:07,760 --> 00:19:09,260 make different choices. 336 00:19:09,260 --> 00:19:12,620 You may not want to cancel the 16 patients on your calendar. 337 00:19:12,620 --> 00:19:14,700 You may not want to. 338 00:19:14,700 --> 00:19:19,740 But you recognize that in saying, I don't want to, you're making an intentional choice. 339 00:19:19,740 --> 00:19:24,900 I don't want to cancel them because I don't want to have to reschedule them. 340 00:19:24,900 --> 00:19:25,900 That's a great choice. 341 00:19:25,900 --> 00:19:27,580 It's a well-informed choice. 342 00:19:27,580 --> 00:19:30,740 But you do have control. 343 00:19:30,740 --> 00:19:33,860 And so I don't want you to focus on what you don't control. 344 00:19:33,860 --> 00:19:34,860 Again, it's script tonight. 345 00:19:34,860 --> 00:19:35,860 We're going to talk about it shortly. 346 00:19:35,860 --> 00:19:39,420 I want you to focus on what you do control and you control your calendar. 347 00:19:39,420 --> 00:19:43,620 Okay, somebody put a meeting on your calendar and you're not available then. 348 00:19:43,620 --> 00:19:44,620 You don't accept the meeting. 349 00:19:44,620 --> 00:19:47,020 You say, hey, thank you for scheduling a meeting at 8 a.m. 350 00:19:47,020 --> 00:19:48,580 But I do my writing at 8 a.m. 351 00:19:48,580 --> 00:19:51,980 I can meet you at 9 45 when I'll be done with my writing. 352 00:19:51,980 --> 00:19:55,100 You control your schedule. 353 00:19:55,100 --> 00:19:56,100 Okay. 354 00:19:56,100 --> 00:19:59,340 And you may, I just want to do one more. 355 00:19:59,340 --> 00:20:01,980 It may be that, oh, the faculty meeting is at 7 a.m. 356 00:20:01,980 --> 00:20:03,100 I don't control that. 357 00:20:03,100 --> 00:20:04,720 You do. 358 00:20:04,720 --> 00:20:09,420 You control whether the faculty meeting at 7 a.m. goes on your schedule or not. 359 00:20:09,420 --> 00:20:10,420 Ellie, what do you mean? 360 00:20:10,420 --> 00:20:11,420 What do you mean? 361 00:20:11,420 --> 00:20:13,740 I don't show up for the faculty meeting. 362 00:20:13,740 --> 00:20:16,820 All is lost. 363 00:20:16,820 --> 00:20:18,500 You control what goes on your schedule. 364 00:20:18,500 --> 00:20:24,500 And you can say, hey, division director who put a meeting on my calendar at 7 a.m. 365 00:20:24,500 --> 00:20:26,780 I have child drop off at 7 a.m. 366 00:20:26,780 --> 00:20:28,180 Would love to be at your meeting. 367 00:20:28,180 --> 00:20:31,200 And if you move it to 8 a.m. I can make it. 368 00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:36,060 But if you do not move it and it stays at 7 a.m., I need you to know that I'm going 369 00:20:36,060 --> 00:20:41,740 to first drop off the child and then I can show up for your meeting. 370 00:20:41,740 --> 00:20:44,460 Maybe at 7 45 I'll be there. 371 00:20:44,460 --> 00:20:46,820 You choose. 372 00:20:46,820 --> 00:20:57,060 And I get the discomfort that comes with making choices that can affect other people. 373 00:20:57,060 --> 00:21:02,180 And you get to choose whether you live with that discomfort versus the discomfort of showing 374 00:21:02,180 --> 00:21:08,820 up in a space that you don't feel ready to show up in yet or feeling guilty about not 375 00:21:08,820 --> 00:21:12,620 having dropped off your children as you usually do just to show up for a meeting so you wouldn't 376 00:21:12,620 --> 00:21:14,220 anger anybody. 377 00:21:14,220 --> 00:21:17,740 Again, you are in control of your calendar. 378 00:21:17,740 --> 00:21:22,580 And what's on there can be moved by you or left there by you as you choose. 379 00:21:22,580 --> 00:21:23,580 Okay. 380 00:21:23,580 --> 00:21:24,720 You control your schedule. 381 00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:26,840 You control your calendar. 382 00:21:26,840 --> 00:21:31,620 You control what goes on it, what stays on it, what meetings you go to. 383 00:21:31,620 --> 00:21:32,620 Okay. 384 00:21:32,620 --> 00:21:40,860 Another thing that you have superpower in is your control over who speaks into or over 385 00:21:40,860 --> 00:21:42,180 your life. 386 00:21:42,180 --> 00:21:43,180 You control that. 387 00:21:43,180 --> 00:21:46,180 You're like, oh, no, you don't know my mentor. 388 00:21:46,180 --> 00:21:48,820 You're always yelling. 389 00:21:48,820 --> 00:21:53,220 You control their access to yell at you. 390 00:21:53,220 --> 00:21:56,100 Now you choose your mentors. 391 00:21:56,100 --> 00:21:58,060 Your mentors do not choose you. 392 00:21:58,060 --> 00:21:59,220 Or maybe they do. 393 00:21:59,220 --> 00:22:00,740 You mutually choose each other. 394 00:22:00,740 --> 00:22:03,180 And that's a beautiful thing. 395 00:22:03,180 --> 00:22:07,100 But if you have chosen a mentor and maybe you chose when you didn't know that this was 396 00:22:07,100 --> 00:22:13,820 an abusive mentor, you have the power to choose not to allow this mentor to continue to be 397 00:22:13,820 --> 00:22:14,820 mentoring you. 398 00:22:14,820 --> 00:22:15,900 You do. 399 00:22:15,900 --> 00:22:19,340 And it may be that you're like, well, we have this major project that's going on together 400 00:22:19,340 --> 00:22:21,080 and I need to get this done. 401 00:22:21,080 --> 00:22:22,080 It's okay. 402 00:22:22,080 --> 00:22:26,020 You're choosing to say, let's continue working together until I can figure out a way, a 403 00:22:26,020 --> 00:22:27,780 safe way to transition. 404 00:22:27,780 --> 00:22:35,580 But what you're doing is you're actively exercising your superpower of choice to start to transition 405 00:22:35,580 --> 00:22:38,580 out of what is an abusive experience. 406 00:22:38,580 --> 00:22:40,860 You are choosing that. 407 00:22:40,860 --> 00:22:44,820 You're exercising your superpower to get out of that experience. 408 00:22:44,820 --> 00:22:47,260 As opposed to, well, I can't control what my mentor does. 409 00:22:47,260 --> 00:22:49,820 I'll just take it. 410 00:22:49,820 --> 00:22:55,740 If people around you, and especially if any mentors, are treating you in a way that feels 411 00:22:55,740 --> 00:23:02,540 disrespectful to you, you do have a choice in helping them understand that for whatever 412 00:23:02,540 --> 00:23:07,380 reason the way they're interacting with you feels disrespectful. 413 00:23:07,380 --> 00:23:13,040 You also have the choice of moving on to another mentor, but you are in control of creating 414 00:23:13,040 --> 00:23:15,080 access to you. 415 00:23:15,080 --> 00:23:21,220 And maybe as you're phasing out relationships with this mentor who, for whatever reason, 416 00:23:21,220 --> 00:23:25,700 seems to be acting abusively towards you, maybe instead of your daily meetings, you 417 00:23:25,700 --> 00:23:27,740 go to once weekly meetings. 418 00:23:27,740 --> 00:23:31,380 Maybe instead of your once weekly meetings, you start to do a bi-weekly meeting. 419 00:23:31,380 --> 00:23:32,380 You know what? 420 00:23:32,380 --> 00:23:34,980 This new Fairel Development Award that came up is really important. 421 00:23:34,980 --> 00:23:39,220 I want to focus this day that we would have meetings on actually getting the mentoring 422 00:23:39,220 --> 00:23:43,340 I need for development of this particular protocol. 423 00:23:43,340 --> 00:23:47,220 So I'm going to meet with you every other week, and then this week I'm going to meet 424 00:23:47,220 --> 00:23:49,100 with this other person. 425 00:23:49,100 --> 00:23:54,220 You have that power, and you may do it in a controlled and strategic way, but you have 426 00:23:54,220 --> 00:23:58,660 power to limit who has access to your life who does not enhance your life. 427 00:23:58,660 --> 00:24:00,100 Now, what do you mean I have power? 428 00:24:00,100 --> 00:24:01,100 It's my division chief. 429 00:24:01,100 --> 00:24:03,140 I have to see him every day. 430 00:24:03,140 --> 00:24:04,140 Where's your office? 431 00:24:04,140 --> 00:24:06,980 Oh, is your office right next door to your division chief? 432 00:24:06,980 --> 00:24:11,300 You can ask for a different office for a different reason. 433 00:24:11,300 --> 00:24:17,860 I'm not inviting you to do things that you're not comfortable with, but I'm just sharing 434 00:24:17,860 --> 00:24:22,900 with you that you are in control, and if somebody's influencing your life, is making your life 435 00:24:22,900 --> 00:24:27,380 miserable, you control their access to you. 436 00:24:27,380 --> 00:24:29,700 Maybe that's all they do is ever make your life miserable. 437 00:24:29,700 --> 00:24:32,340 You control their access to you. 438 00:24:32,340 --> 00:24:38,740 Maybe part of controlling that access is by not showing up where they go. 439 00:24:38,740 --> 00:24:42,120 Maybe they're always at the pool at 6 a.m. in the morning. 440 00:24:42,120 --> 00:24:43,120 Maybe you change your time. 441 00:24:43,120 --> 00:24:45,180 You go to the pool at 4 a.m. 442 00:24:45,180 --> 00:24:46,820 Maybe you go at 7 a.m. 443 00:24:46,820 --> 00:24:52,460 You control who has access to speaking into your life, including the mentors that you 444 00:24:52,460 --> 00:24:55,060 work with. 445 00:24:55,060 --> 00:25:02,220 The last thing, number five, is you control your own investment in your career. 446 00:25:02,220 --> 00:25:05,940 You control your own investment in your research career. 447 00:25:05,940 --> 00:25:11,420 Now, we need support to succeed in research, and many times we find ourselves without support, 448 00:25:11,420 --> 00:25:16,780 and we don't control whether other people support us or not, but we do control the investment 449 00:25:16,780 --> 00:25:18,140 we make. 450 00:25:18,140 --> 00:25:21,780 We control how many days a week we dedicate to writing daily. 451 00:25:21,780 --> 00:25:28,140 We communicate how much time every week we commit to planning our weekly research agenda. 452 00:25:28,140 --> 00:25:34,260 We commit how much time we spend creating a research agenda in the first place. 453 00:25:34,260 --> 00:25:41,780 We control how much time we spend getting the skills that we need to enhance our research. 454 00:25:41,780 --> 00:25:43,500 We control the investment. 455 00:25:43,500 --> 00:25:48,340 And even if other people do not invest, we invest. 456 00:25:48,340 --> 00:25:51,100 And that is also a financial investment as well. 457 00:25:51,100 --> 00:25:54,180 I hear people saying to me, it's like, oh, coaching is so expensive. 458 00:25:54,180 --> 00:26:00,220 Well, you can think of it as an expense, or you can think of it as an investment. 459 00:26:00,220 --> 00:26:02,620 You can think of it as an investment. 460 00:26:02,620 --> 00:26:10,300 And I have a lot of coaches, so this is not like, oh, well, I'm the only coach that could 461 00:26:10,300 --> 00:26:12,300 transform your life. 462 00:26:12,300 --> 00:26:16,580 I get coached, my coaches are amazing, and I coach others as well. 463 00:26:16,580 --> 00:26:18,740 But here's the thing. 464 00:26:18,740 --> 00:26:22,980 If you make zero investment in coaching, guess what you don't get an investment in? 465 00:26:22,980 --> 00:26:25,600 You don't get a return on investment in your coaching. 466 00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:27,140 Your life goes on. 467 00:26:27,140 --> 00:26:33,720 But you control the investment you make, which leads to the return on your investment. 468 00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:36,140 You control that investment. 469 00:26:36,140 --> 00:26:38,820 You can wait until somebody else makes an investment, and then you're like, okay, now 470 00:26:38,820 --> 00:26:40,780 I'll make the investment myself. 471 00:26:40,780 --> 00:26:44,620 But the way it usually works is that you make the investment first. 472 00:26:44,620 --> 00:26:48,820 Other people see the returns that you're getting from your investment, and then they say, you 473 00:26:48,820 --> 00:26:53,540 want to come alongside and support this investment, and then they contribute too. 474 00:26:53,540 --> 00:26:58,500 But until you make the investment, you may not get other people to buy into the investment. 475 00:26:58,500 --> 00:27:03,380 Okay, so I talked about the superpowers, now I want to tell you about the Kryptonite. 476 00:27:03,380 --> 00:27:07,820 Because you do not control what other people do, if you focus on what you do not control, 477 00:27:07,820 --> 00:27:12,540 it would drag down everything you do control, because the energy you should spend in adjusting 478 00:27:12,540 --> 00:27:19,420 the things you do control, you're actually spending not doing the things that you control. 479 00:27:19,420 --> 00:27:24,340 The energy you spend pursuing the things you're not in control of affect the things that you 480 00:27:24,340 --> 00:27:25,700 actually are in control of. 481 00:27:25,700 --> 00:27:34,180 For example, you are not in control of how your mentor interprets your work. 482 00:27:34,180 --> 00:27:38,900 Maybe they look at your work and you're like, look at you, you're not doing any work. 483 00:27:38,900 --> 00:27:42,920 You know that for the last three days, you've been holed up in your room turning out the 484 00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:46,980 pages of this proposal, and they look at it and say, you're not even really serious about 485 00:27:46,980 --> 00:27:48,800 this, are you? 486 00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:53,820 You don't control how they interpret the results of your work. 487 00:27:53,820 --> 00:27:55,620 You control you. 488 00:27:55,620 --> 00:28:00,700 But if you're working so hard to change your mentor's perspective of you, maybe your mentor 489 00:28:00,700 --> 00:28:06,220 doesn't think you're really invested, you're like, how do I change this person's mind? 490 00:28:06,220 --> 00:28:07,980 You don't control that. 491 00:28:07,980 --> 00:28:09,660 You don't control them. 492 00:28:09,660 --> 00:28:11,460 You don't control their choices. 493 00:28:11,460 --> 00:28:16,980 But every time you spend waking energy into trying to control them, and you don't control 494 00:28:16,980 --> 00:28:22,860 their choices, it's time that you're not spending actually moving forward in your research. 495 00:28:22,860 --> 00:28:24,320 It's kryptonite. 496 00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:28,420 It's kryptonite because for many of us, and especially those of us who in one way or the 497 00:28:28,420 --> 00:28:33,960 other may be underrepresented in the academy, and for many times even us, those of us who 498 00:28:33,960 --> 00:28:40,500 identify as women, we are so fixated on the things we don't control because they feel 499 00:28:40,500 --> 00:28:42,380 like they're driving our experience. 500 00:28:42,380 --> 00:28:47,380 And the more time and attention we give to the things we don't control, the more we are 501 00:28:47,380 --> 00:28:49,940 frustrated and disempowered. 502 00:28:49,940 --> 00:28:55,060 And then we don't actually take ownership for the things we do control, and the kryptonite 503 00:28:55,060 --> 00:28:57,640 does its dirty work. 504 00:28:57,640 --> 00:28:59,660 I want to invite you to do something. 505 00:28:59,660 --> 00:29:02,660 This is a really powerful exercise that I did just yesterday. 506 00:29:02,660 --> 00:29:04,900 Now I want to invite you to do it too. 507 00:29:04,900 --> 00:29:10,520 I want you to take a piece of paper or maybe your notes app on your phone or some other 508 00:29:10,520 --> 00:29:12,420 strategy to write. 509 00:29:12,420 --> 00:29:14,220 I want you to make two lists. 510 00:29:14,220 --> 00:29:19,260 So put a line down the middle of this piece of paper or make a table if you're using the 511 00:29:19,260 --> 00:29:20,260 app. 512 00:29:20,260 --> 00:29:25,420 And on one side, write a list of the things I control in my research career. 513 00:29:25,420 --> 00:29:32,260 And on the other hand, write a list of the things I do not control in my research career. 514 00:29:32,260 --> 00:29:33,840 Write that list. 515 00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:35,060 And it may look like this. 516 00:29:35,060 --> 00:29:41,260 On the one hand is, I control which proposals I submit. 517 00:29:41,260 --> 00:29:47,740 On the other hand, I do not control the outcomes of the reviewers. 518 00:29:47,740 --> 00:29:51,580 I do not control how the reviewers view my grant. 519 00:29:51,580 --> 00:29:54,780 You write down the list of things you control. 520 00:29:54,780 --> 00:29:57,620 You write down the list of the things you don't control. 521 00:29:57,620 --> 00:29:58,620 And just take five minutes. 522 00:29:58,620 --> 00:29:59,620 That's all. 523 00:29:59,620 --> 00:30:00,620 Just five minutes. 524 00:30:00,620 --> 00:30:03,220 Come up with a list and see. 525 00:30:03,220 --> 00:30:09,020 And then choose to own the things you control and ignore, leave out, and stop worrying about 526 00:30:09,020 --> 00:30:11,380 the things you do not control. 527 00:30:11,380 --> 00:30:15,340 I'm so excited because this exercise is really transformative for me and for the group of 528 00:30:15,340 --> 00:30:17,620 women I coached in doing it. 529 00:30:17,620 --> 00:30:22,540 And I hope that it's going to be impactful and insightful for you. 530 00:30:22,540 --> 00:30:26,780 And if you want to share what breakthroughs or insights may have come to you from the 531 00:30:26,780 --> 00:30:27,780 exercise, please do. 532 00:30:27,780 --> 00:30:29,180 I would love to hear it. 533 00:30:29,180 --> 00:30:34,340 I'd also love you to please share with somebody else who needs to understand their superpower 534 00:30:34,340 --> 00:30:37,820 and the things they control versus the things that they do not control. 535 00:30:37,820 --> 00:30:38,820 All right. 536 00:30:38,820 --> 00:30:40,740 It's been a pleasure talking with you today. 537 00:30:40,740 --> 00:30:47,060 I am excited when we come into a world of superheroes, superheroes who are working in 538 00:30:47,060 --> 00:30:49,660 their superpower all the time. 539 00:30:49,660 --> 00:30:55,000 And they are avoiding the kryptonite of destruction, the kryptonite of discouragement, the kryptonite 540 00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:56,340 of disillusionment. 541 00:30:56,340 --> 00:30:59,660 What kind of academic environments would we have? 542 00:30:59,660 --> 00:31:02,220 What kind of productivity would we see? 543 00:31:02,220 --> 00:31:03,860 It would be so, so awesome. 544 00:31:03,860 --> 00:31:05,940 And I'm so excited about it. 545 00:31:05,940 --> 00:31:06,940 All right. 546 00:31:06,940 --> 00:31:08,260 It's been a pleasure talking with you today. 547 00:31:08,260 --> 00:31:17,740 I look forward to talking with you again the next time. 548 00:31:17,740 --> 00:31:23,100 Thanks for listening to this episode of the Clinician Researcher Podcast, where academic 549 00:31:23,100 --> 00:31:28,540 clinicians learn the skills to build their own research program, whether or not they 550 00:31:28,540 --> 00:31:29,900 have a mentor. 551 00:31:29,900 --> 00:31:36,000 If you found the information in this episode to be helpful, don't keep it all to yourself. 552 00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:37,740 Someone else needs to hear it. 553 00:31:37,740 --> 00:31:41,780 So take a minute right now and share it. 554 00:31:41,780 --> 00:31:47,260 As you share this episode, you become part of our mission to help launch a new generation 555 00:31:47,260 --> 00:31:52,900 of clinician researchers who make transformative discoveries that change the way we do health 556 00:31:52,900 --> 00:32:20,820 care.