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Improving yourself 1% every day is a 37x improvement in one year.

My Life Plan After Quitting Medicine in My 30s

All right, so I spent 10 years becoming a doctor, and now I’ve quit. My name is Zach. I’m 30 years old, and I was an internal medicine doctor working and living in Boston, but 6 months ago, I left medicine forever and now live in Pennsylvania. Now, after the Read more…

By Zach, 3 monthsFebruary 27, 2025 ago

How to transform your life in 6 months

Six months ago, after my third hour on Instagram, surrounded by DoorDash, stuck at the bottom of my couch, I thought, “Is this what I want my life to be? Or do I want something different?” I was sluggish, unmotivated, and weak, with no vision or hope for the future. Read more…

By Zach, 3 monthsFebruary 8, 2025 ago

How I’m Redesigning My Life

I exercise at 4:05 am, I never look at my phone for the first 10 hours of my day, and I stop working at 2:30 PM every single day. This life redesign has completely changed my life. I’ve tried 100s of morning and nighttime routines, read 1000s of academic journals, Read more…

By Zach, 4 monthsJanuary 11, 2025 ago

How Lucid Dreaming Changed My Life – Two Year Review

We spend a third of our lives asleep. For 27 years, all I did was put my head on the pillow, experience blackness, and then wake up. So, nine years of my life disappeared. What if there was a possibility of being productive while asleep without sacrificing sleep? Sounds impossible, Read more…

By Zach, 6 monthsNovember 11, 2024 ago

I Quit Medicine – Why I Left

I’ve been thinking about this for years. This isn’t clickbait: I quit medicine. My name is Zach, and I was a resident physician in Internal Medicine in Boston. I put 10 years into this, and, officially, I am done. Let’s talk about it. I want to break it down by: Read more…

By Zach, 7 monthsOctober 22, 2024 ago
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