Karl Avillo, MD 🚢

I talk about study strategies and productivity for medical students | Helped medical students with struggles in med school | Med school teacher | Internist

[Karl Avillo, MD 🚢 @AvilloKarl]

Over the past 10 years, I ranked 7th in the Nurse Licensure Examination, 3rd in the Physician Licensure Examination, and 1st in the Philippine Specialty Board of Internal Medicine.

What most people don’t know?

I use the same 3 study strategies every time.
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[Karl Avillo, MD 🚢 @AvilloKarl]

Reminder to self:

When you were starting out, did you really expect this thing to be easy?

No, right?

So why the hell are you complaining that it's hard?

If it were easy, then it wouldn't be worth having.

[Karl Avillo, MD 🚢 @AvilloKarl]

We don’t fail because we made mistakes.

That’s just part of learning to get good at anything.

We fail when we stop trying or quit too often & too early.

[Karl Avillo, MD 🚢 @AvilloKarl]

If you think the price of winning is too high, wait till you get the bill from regret. — Tim Grover

[Karl Avillo, MD 🚢 @AvilloKarl]

Everyone wants to pass their exams.

But not everyone wants to go through the pain of studying for those exams.

You can't keep wanting something while refusing to do what it takes to get it.

Because otherwise, you're just setting yourself up for massive disappointment.

[Karl Avillo, MD 🚢 @AvilloKarl]

Active recall being hard is exactly why it works.

Because the harder you work to recall information you’ve just learned, the easier it becomes to remember that same information when you actually need it.

And that’s how you pass your exams.

[Karl Avillo, MD 🚢 @AvilloKarl]

Those low practice test scores you got don't mean that you're a failure or that you'll never pass your exams.

They're feedback.

Use them.

[Karl Avillo, MD 🚢 @AvilloKarl]

Reminder to self:

You have the ability to change your life in this very moment.

There was never a time, and there never will be, when we are without the power to change the trajectory of our lives.

[Karl Avillo, MD 🚢 @AvilloKarl]

Your stress comes from knowing that you definitely need to start studying now.

But instead, you're choosing to delay it just because you're waiting to "feel ready."

[Karl Avillo, MD 🚢 @AvilloKarl]

Brutal truth:

If we don't learn from our mistakes in the practice tests, we risk making the same mistakes again when it matters the most (i.e., during the actual exam).

[Karl Avillo, MD 🚢 @AvilloKarl]

Reminder to self:

Quitting is the only real failure. Everything else is just feedback.

[Karl Avillo, MD 🚢 @AvilloKarl]

It’s funny how much easier it is to stay focused when you lock yourself out of your social media accounts and other distracting apps.

Because once all those distractions are gone, you’re left with nothing to do except the task that’s in front of you.

[Alex Hormozi @AlexHormozi]

"I wasn't at 100%" is never an acceptable excuse - because no one is.

[Karl Avillo, MD 🚢 @AvilloKarl]

Successful people see opportunity in every failure. Normal people see failure in every opportunity.

@AlexHormozi

[Karl Avillo, MD 🚢 @AvilloKarl]

That mental strain you feel when you're studying isn't suffering.

It's the feeling of your brain actually learning and remembering something new.

So, stop avoiding that mental discomfort.

Instead, see it as a sign that what you're doing is actually working.

[Karl Avillo, MD 🚢 @AvilloKarl]

Problems usually have solutions.

If something doesn't have a solution, then it's not a problem; it's just a situation.

And with most situations, we don't try to solve them.

We simply live with them.

Because most of the time, they're out of our control.

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[Karl Avillo, MD 🚢 @AvilloKarl]

Brutal truth:

You will never outgrow your own self-limiting beliefs.

[Karl Avillo, MD 🚢 @AvilloKarl]

When you scroll on social media, you see everything that's wrong in the world, then your life becomes dark & unhappy

But when you focus only on that 1 task that’s right in front of you, then you’ll have no time for all the bad stuff

Which then makes your life bright & happy.

[Karl Avillo, MD 🚢 @AvilloKarl]

If you wait to start studying for your exam when you have "more" time,

You'll either study less than you should, or you won't finish studying anything at all.

Because the truth is, you’ll never “find” more time.

So you might as well “make” the time and start studying today.

[Karl Avillo, MD 🚢 @AvilloKarl]

Daily reminder:

The *real* waste of time is reading the study material and forgetting almost all of it.

Because you never tested yourself on it.

[Karl Avillo, MD 🚢 @AvilloKarl]

I never get tired of reading these MedQbank success stories.

Each one is a reminder that what we're doing actually matters.

And nothing fires me up more than that.

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