Nicco

Plastic surgeon, professor, musician & father.
Writing for high-achievers refusing to choose between career, creativity, family & freedom.

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If the roots are shallow, the first storm takes the whole thing down. Spirituality is not a branch. It is what keeps the rest standing.

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Root your tree deep enough that it can hold every fruit you will ever grow. The branches will shift. Some will bear more in one season than another.

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Against all better advice, I am not niching down but broadening up.

You might call it scattered, I call it integrated.

A full human life was never meant to fit in one lane.

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The idea was clear. My packaging was not.

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If you need a whole paragraph to explain what you write about, your name might be the problem.

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Someone hands you a structure and suddenly you are measuring yourself against it instead of using it to see more clearly.

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Most frameworks become prisons because we treat them as prescriptions.

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More from Life is live now. Every essay I write will nest under one of these branches. The link in my bio.

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I spent a year writing about what it means to live a full human life. For my patients. For my family. For myself. The patterns kept repeating. Five areas I always came back to. One thing holding them together. Here is the framework that emerged:

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Grab the branches that feed you. Ignore the rest. A tree has multiple branches precisely so different people can find shade in different places. Your full human life is yours to build, not mine to define.

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I really believe that

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For most, loss of attention is worse than no attention in the first place.