Premed Productivity Podcast with Dr. Andre Pinesett

How To Overcome Learning Disabilities And Study Smart

• Dr. Andre Pinesett • Season 2 • Episode 12

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And this live action is because I just finished up a coach with my students in the five pillars of studying. Let's give it a grades my studying course and one of my students was like, hey, aren't you gonna send about Cat Williams? And I'm like, well, I've already spent two one hour live streams on the Cat Williams Club Shaysha interview. But since she challenged me, I was like you know what? I gotta go live just for Stephanie. So this is a special live just for Stephanie and we're gonna talk about one key takeaway from that Cat Williams video. And it was something he said in the interview in response to Shannon Sharp defending some of the people he was talking trash on and what's up, nelson, what up y'all. So I'll hit the intro and then we'll be live action and we'll get this learning on. Let's go, but stop making excuses, stop whining, stop right, get at it. No excuses, just dominate Josh Sean in the building. Okay, so if you guys don't know, I'm Dr Pineshaw and I'm the pre-med pro-expert. I help you guys be successful, be more positive, be more productive, get into medical school.

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And the lesson for today is from the quote Cat Williams said in response to Shannon Sharp and he said you have an unnatural allegiance to losers, and I loved it when he said this, because for so many of you guys, you have an unnatural allegiance to losers in your own life and it makes you lose when you could be winning. And a lot of times, as students, we have a blind spot to this because we're enveloped. We have so much failure and setbacks in our lives that we start to see ourselves as that loser and we become inseparable from that loser. And so how many of you guys run a negative narrative? You have these negative thoughts that are constant and always going on in your head and you allow yourself to live in a negative, limiting, defeatist narrative? How many of you guys is that this White coat drinks? I'm glad you needed this today. How many of you guys have that happen when you're like oh well, you know, I wanna succeed, but just kid, because you know, color my skin, or because I'm having money, or because I'm not smart, and so on. And it's never clearer to me, it's always clear to me that you guys live in this state of doubt. So many of you guys.

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As students, it's pretty much like dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot all day, every day. And it's become even clearer, because one of my YouTube shorts I put out was literally it's a 40 second clip of me saying, hey, if you have ADHD, this is what you need to do. And in the video I say, hey, one thing you can do, one thing that you can do to help with your ADHD not cure your ADHD. Help with your ADHD is to put your phone away and not have the phone be one extra distraction for you as you're studying. And the response to this video has been nuts. It's like my whole comment on video and it's all these students with ADHD coming on there and telling me that me the neurotypical is being insensitive to these ADHD neurodivergent students and I don't know anything about ADHD and telling them to put their phone away is ridiculous because they can get distracted in an empty room. And one of my responses to one of these people was like hey, I'm here telling you that if you have ADHD, there are a lot of things that you need to change. You can be a better student, though you don't have to be a victim of your ADHD-ness hood, whatever you wanna call it, and me saying that.

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Why is there such a rebuttal to me saying that? And when Cat Williams said that I was like that's why? Why? Because you guys have an unnatural allegiance to you losing. You like to say my ADHD, my dyslexia, my whatever, is insurmountable, I could not possibly succeed. Why? Because it lets you off the hook entirely. Right, you're the victim. How can you expect me to be more? I'm the victim. But if I tell you you could be and you should be more, that puts the burden, the onus, on you to live up to the potential I see in you and that would be too much to bear. How dare you say I can be more than my ADHD? And that's where the outrage comes from.

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In my response to you, I'll repeat what Cat Williams said why do you have such an unnatural allegiance to losers? Why do you like not succeeding classes? Why do you like struggling? Why do you like being distracted? Why do you like being less than you could be? Why do you like missing out on the grades and on your goals? Why is that attractive to you? Why do you want to keep that narrative going? Why would I try to tell you stop, I don't care what disability you have, you can be successful, but you must change. You must act different. You must be different. You must try something that is uncomfortable. You must stop giving in to your disability, to your disadvantage. You must work around it. You must work smart. Why does that make you uncomfortable? Because then the burden is on you, because I've given you a road you can walk. And so I encourage all you guys, as students, never be let's start here Better. Be aware of the negative narratives that you run on yourself, the negative game, the traps you keep yourself in.

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And one of the great experiments I've cited before is the jumping flea experiment. Who's heard this experiment before? These researchers took fleas and they put them in jars, and one jar was, let's call it, 12 inches high. Another jar was 6 inches high and they put fleas in these jars and the fleas are just jumping around, bouncing around the jars, and what was amazing was that when they took the fleas out, the fleas that were in the 6 inch jar kept jumping them 6 inches, and the fleas that were in the 12 inch jar could jump 12 inches. What was the difference? One was in a trap, one was in a limiting environment, and for many of you guys, as students, you live in a limiting environment. You're a flea in a 6 inch jar, when you could be a flea in a 12 foot jar.

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You have to set yourself free Because I can tell you so I'm blue in the face that you could be incredible. You can do these things, but if you don't have any believing you, you can't achieve it. Baby, right, they say you got to believe to achieve, and that's true. Just because you believe something doesn't mean you will achieve it, but you darn sure will never achieve something you don't believe in. Do we understand? Let's see this request.

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Someone has requested to be live in my video. I don't know who this is. I'm not going to go live with this person because I'm live on YouTube right now. Right, we're live-action on YouTube. Does everybody understand what I'm saying? It's amazing to me. Recognize.

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We have to step out of these narratives. We have to ask ourselves why. What are the narratives that I'm putting on myself that are holding me back? And I can speak to you from this position. It's not because I'm speaking to you because I don't understand what you're going through. I understand exactly what you're going through because I was right the first generation college student. No one in my family had graduated college. I was the broke student coming from no money, living in a triple occupancy dorm. I was the only black face at UC Irvine. The only black face. There's 10 of us. Come on, I know what it is to feel like you don't belong, like you weren't enough, like you are different, and I treated myself as such. I told myself, ah, I can't get the A. They're smarter than me, they look the part, I don't look the part. They got money, I don't got money. They read better than I read. They're organized. All these excuses I put out there and, as a result, I lived that. I framed myself. I put myself in a six-inch jar.

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My freshman year I was flunking out of college and it took my counter telling me that I was a, that I was a no-nothing, that I was that because I was saying it to myself every day. Every day I was telling myself oh, you're terrible, you're going to flunk out of here. I was telling myself that every day. It didn't hurt enough. But when she said it to me, I was like how dare you say that to me? I can say it about me, but you can't say it about me. And it fired me up and it made me recognize that either I am going to be that flunking student or I can step up and be more.

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And I got myself to work, y'all. I got my ass to work and, as a result, I became the A student. It wasn't overnight, but I became the A student. I became the 95th percentile MCAT score. I became the Stanford medical student. I became the top resident. I became all these things because I was sick. I told myself that's a gosh darn lie. I have an allegiance to being this loser, to playing the victim. I got to step up and be the victor. I got to step up and achieve and make it happen and I did. And so when I tell you, hey, listen, I did it, you can do it. I'm not just telling you because I did it, and you do it Because you get a lot of people on the internet.

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That's what I'm going to talk about right here. Right, people want to ask me what's your MCAT score? It's not about what my stats were. I'm verified. I got to stand for medical school. The question you should be asking yourself is, when I listen to people on the internet, how many students like me has this person put on? What are this person's students' MCAT scores, gpas, success rates? How many of them are in medical school? And my students. We get in every year. My students top scores, my students succeeding, less stress, less time spent studying, better grades. My students get the job done. And so it's important when I talk to you guys, I'm not talking about me and what I've done. I'm talking about what my path has allowed me to show other students and how I've uplifted them.

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And so when I tell you, hey, listen, you got ADHD. Put your phone away, get a schedule, get organized, move the distractions, don't study for too long of an interval, put, customize your plan to you and you can succeed, I'm not telling you because that's what I did. I'm telling you that because I've been working with ADHD for over 20 years y'all 20 years, in fact. Last week I had one of my students come shout at me in the OR. He's a medical student currently with ADHD, and when he found me he was struggling, put in a program protocol. Now he's in med school, winning in the top half of his class. That's the result when you put in work. So when I speak to you and say, hey, listen, that HD, don't worry about that, you can be better. You can be better, I'm not thinking because I'm speaking because I've worked with students for 20 years and the proof is in the pudding.

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So stop with your unnatural allegiance to the old you that wasn't achieving, to the old you who procrastinate, the old you who wasn't focused, and have a new allegiance to the you that can win, the you that has all the potential to be great, and step into it. Yes, yes, are you guys still with me, like the video right now? Let me know. Say, hey, dr P, I'm still with you. Hello, meryl, what up? The Queen, what up? You're a. What up Shawna, what up? Everybody? Hello, hello, hello, howdy, what up? How are we all doing? Right, we got to step out of that allegiance to that.

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The other thing I'll say, and we'll end it on this I'll be brief on this because I went long on that you guys have an unnatural allegiance to internet losers, to the internet losers. I hate, hate, hate, hate, hate. Scrolling social media and watching you guys like posts, comment oh my gosh, this is amazing. I wish I'd be like you post to people who are serial, repeat, incessant losers. I struggled early in my career. I learned the lesson and from that point on it was all uphill. Why? Because I said I don't want to be that loser and I made the changes and I succeeded. It is not a badge of honor If you make the same mistake over and over and over again.

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That's loser them. If someone says to me I felt the MCAT five times Isn't that great, and I pass it on my six time, I'm like, no, that's awful. If you failed it once, change what you're doing. If you failed it twice, change what you're doing. It shouldn't take six attempts. Make the change. I don't respect you making the same mistake over and over and over again.

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I saw posts from someone saying listen, I failed my MCAT this many times. I felt step one as many times. I felt step two as many times. I felt my boards this many times. And look at me today I'm a doctor and I'm like if at every level, you fail the cumulative final for that level, what that tells me is you didn't learn from the previous level and make an adjustment and prepare yourself to do well. So I'm not with that. I can't do it like oh yeah, that's so great.

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No, if I fail one board exam, I'm making darn sure that I over prepare for the next one. I'm getting the support resources I need. I'm getting the accommodations I need. I'm going to be over preparing to be successful. That's loser, dumb. To keep making the same mistake If you have a bad fall semester and then you have a bad spring semester because you're doing the same procrastination, the same in fact. It's not a sadgy, that's a you problem and I don't respect that. I will not cheer for you. Do better. Do we understand? Are we clear? Thank you, busters. Exactly, serial losers.

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It's about winning. In life, there are winners and losers, nothing in between Period. And as I say that, oh my God, she said winning and losing, yes, but what they don't tell you is that winning is you and your definition of winning. For me, winning was not getting straight A's. For me, the objective was getting into medical school and, as part of that, getting great grades, was it? But I'll be perfect.

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Winning is about accomplishing your goals, living a great life. I'm an anesthesiologist now I want. That's what winning is. You get to decide what winning is. Making a positive step, helping other people. You get to choose.

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But when y'all stop being a loser, do we understand? Everybody good? All right, I'm out of here. Everybody, have a wonderful evening. Okay, I'm gonna leave y'all. I appreciate you guys for joining me. Got new videos coming up this week.

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Don't be a loser. Be better. Be better. Stop living in the pity party. There's more. There's more to life than sitting in your victimhood. We all have potential, but you gotta step up to it and be it and be your greatness. Stop living in Loserville Sucks over there. Ain't nothing over there. Loserville is the slums. You could be living in a penthouse baby. Be a winner. All it takes is effort. All it takes is execution. Put the work in, get educated and then execute. Everybody got it. My website's premedproductivitycom. We's winners, and if you wanna win, come to the website, get in the course, get into a coaching program and get educated, and then let's get to work. Let's get you to your goals. Plain simple we win it. That's it for another episode. Show your love by smashing the like button and commenting in the box below.

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Today is the day, guys. No more excuses, no more complaining. You're going to take your future into your own hands. You're going to dominate. You're going to be successful. I challenge you. What are you going to do today to make your life better? Get to my website, premedproductivitycom, grab a free e-book, sign up for every webinar and, if you're really ready to transform, enroll in one of my life-changing courses or coaching programs. You have greatness inside you. Let me show you how to unlock it so you can dominate and make your dreams a reality. No excuses, just dominate.

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