Bliss Point and Worthiness

Ending Physician Overwhelm

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Have you ever found yourself at the bottom of a bag of chips and don’t know how you got there?

Blame “The Bliss Point;” a high desirability combination of flavors/crunch/textures that make us want to keep eating, without feeling fully satisfied. Sound familiar?

Today we talk about how profitable industries manipulate us to keep doing more of what makes them money; for the food industry, it’s eating (and buying) more foods that tempt us without satisfying us. For the medical-industrial complex? It’s just enough validation to give a bit of dopamine (for people-pleasers like us anyway), but not enough that we’ll feel content in our innate worth, or certainly in our value as professionals.

Also, be sure to check out Episode 34 from July 15, 2024 of my friend, Dr Rashmi Schramm’s excellent podcast, “Inner Peace and Power;” in the episode, she and I spoke about this concept of a “Bliss Point” in medicine, and how this leaves us hustling to prove our value. Find the show “Inner Peace and Power” on your favorite podcast app.

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