Operate with Zen

Understanding personality provides insight into how to best enhance your strengths and complement your weaknesses.  While personality is more static, energy levels can fluctuate - negative energy can be catabolic and positive energy can help you and others grow.  Reading and references: Predictably Irrational, Atomic Habits, Energy Leadership, Think Like a Monk. 

This episode focuses on concepts of bad behaviors and attempts to understand why our colleagues, our institutions, and us as individuals may behave poorly.  Understanding negative thinking is the first step in addressing and improving individual behaviors and institutional cultures and, in general, taking better care of each other.  Reading and References: Think Like a Monk, Energy Leadership, The...

Angela Smith, MD is an Associate Professor of Urology, Vice Chair of Academic Affairs and Director of Urologic Oncology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  In addition to being an extremely successful academic urologist, she is a mom and staunch advocate for faculty development and well-being.  In this podcast, we discuss good and bad habits and how to integrate them into a surgic...

Chris Bordoni is a former athlete, elite consultant, cancer survivor, and resilience coach.  Chris is also the host of "Reinvented" a podcast about resilience and resilient people.  Chris and I discuss resilience and how it applies to surgery, surgeons and a healthy life outside of work.  You can find out more about Chris at: https://chrisbordoni.com/.  You can find the Reinvented podcas...