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