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[Calley Means @calleymeans]

The answer to changing healthcare is embedded in this 33 seconds-

Looking at the factory he built, Elon says he would rather “lose power and money” than not speak truth.

But at every hospital, Med School, & pharma co, leaders are KNOWINGLY lying bc truth would hurt income.

We don’t need international conferences at universities to discuss the nuances of healthcare reform. We don’t need more think tank panels. We don’t need more studies.

We need adults to have a moral conscience and stop throwing patients (especially kids) into the shredder to prop the largest and fasted growing industry in the country (healthcare)

We need doctors who treat autoimmune diseases to stop signing patients up for lifetime injections and start talking about how food interventions can keep them out of the hospital for good.

We need President Biden - who received more donations from pharma than any member of Congress in American history - to say NO when he is pressured to pick a person to lead the NIH who received $200 million from Pfizer over her career.

We need members of the Trump administration to admit the disastrous error of appointing a panel to create nutrition guidelines that had 95% of its members on payroll of food and/or pharma companies.

We need nutrition researchers to refuse donations from food companies. Instead, it is the lifeblood of the industry.

We need medical association to declare obesity and diabetes are reversible - which they refuse to do because their business models are “managing” conditions for life.

The medical community needs to stop throwing up their hands that “lifestyle interventions are hard” when they profit from the failure of these interventions.

The American Medical Association needs to stop lobbying against preventative health (which they continually work to undermine because it hurts profit) and start lobbying for curbing government funding of sugar on programs like SNAP.

It is so simple.

People undermine @elonmusk often - but if the leaders of our healthcare institutions had 50% of the fearlessness and first principle thinking, our country would be transformed.

The Dean of @HarvardHealth needs to look across the beautiful campus.

The head of the @MayoClinic needs to look across the beautiful facilities.

And the CEO of @pfizer needs to gaze across their beautiful HQ.

They then need to decide that the future of our children are worth leveraging their positions for, even it means losing wealth or power.

They need to decide the first principle of health is keeping patients healthy, not managing disease.

Leaders in healthcare know the truth - they just need to speak it.

[Syed A @syearaf]

Our decision has to be logical and unbiased based on facts and probability. If we stick to this strategy and be consistent, we will significantly increase our probability of getting good result

[Syed A @syearaf]

Every decision that we make can have multiple outcomes. We have to think about all the possibilities when we make our goals. This way we will not be shocked by unexpected outcomes and will be more prepared to tackle

[Syed A @syearaf]

Finally, life has a lot of uncertainty and unknown. There is no way for us to know everything when we make a decision. Luck will play its role along the way. We have to accept it

[Syed A @syearaf]

We often shut down opinions from others’ view and put too much importance on opinions that align with our own view. We have to broaden our mindset by exposing ourselves to different opinions and viewpoints. This is a crucial skill for making good decisions

[Syed A @syearaf]

“Life is not a chess game. it’s more like a poker.” Outcomes of every decision we take are influenced by luck to a certain extent. Annie Duke’s Thinking in Bets is a great read if you want to transform your decision making to the next level!

[Syed A @syearaf]

When we make a mistake or fail, we think we have such a bad luck. Similarly, we think we succeed only because of our skills. However when it comes to others, we blame their good luck for their success. This kind of mindset is faulty and block us from seeing the truth

[Syed A @syearaf]

Cal Newport provided so many good tips in this book to take your productivity to the next level. I highly recommend this book!

[Syed A @syearaf]

According to this book Deep Work by Cal Newport, some of the main strategies to do deep work are

[Syed A @syearaf]

Once you have a plan for next day, say “shutdown complete.” Do not look at work email or anything work related until next morning

[Syed A @syearaf]

Researchers found that intense focus causes myelin (white tissue surrounding neuron) to develop in our brain. It helps to fire signals faster and cleaner and thus helps us to rapidly connect ideas and uncover creative solutions. When we do deep work we literally upgrade our brain

[Syed A @syearaf]

The ability to do deep work is increasingly valuable and increasingly rare. However, there are steps that you can take to develop a deep work habit, and escape the traffic of constant distraction. This will make you indispensable in today’s economy