What are you measuring in your life?
Imagine this… Someone walks into the gym, warms up, does a little bit of this exercise, does a little bit of that exercise, bounces around to a few machines, maybe hops on the treadmill, finishes their workout, and leaves the gym. This isn't a critique of their workout. In fact, it's quite possible that they got a nice workout in. So, what is notable about this situation? They didn't measure anything. They didn't track their workout. They didn't count reps or weight or time or speed or any other metric. And so, they have no basis for knowing if they are making progress or not. Not tracking your progress is one of the six major mistakes I see people make in the gym. But here's the thing: We all have areas of life that we say are important to us, but that we aren't measuring. What We Measure, We Improve Count something. Regardless of what one ultimately does in medicine—or outside of medicine, for that matter—one should be a scientist in...