Physician to writer to entrepreneur & halfway there

[Saavik]

I think some reasons many doctors have a hard time switching to entrepreneurship is:
1) want everything to be perfect,
2) fear of failure, never failed at anything in their life,
3) don’t understand the path to success because it’s not a clearly set path like the college-med school-residency-practicing path,
4) they suffer from the sunken cost fallacy, “Well I’ve already spent $400,000 toward becoming a doctor so I have to go forward with that path.”

Well said!

 

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[Saavik]

Here's my progress thread now to track the next steps in the journey...

A tentative takeaway: My pursuits so far possibly still haven't centered on an industry that was sufficiently "unsexy".