Why Most Career Advice Fails You (And the Secret to Getting Real Clarity) | 🔥 A millennial’s hot take on career change advice for doctors

Have you been posting in FB groups asking for advice about what you should do? Are you hoping that if you just ask enough people- someone will give you the right answer. Have you noticed- that the more times you ask for advice- the more confused you actually get? That more information does not actually equal more clarity.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• Why asking other people for advice won’t help you find a fulfilling career
• The skill that healthcare professionals lack that makes their career change needlessly frustrating.
• How to find the clarity and answers you seek- while saving time and so much headache

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Transcript

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In this episode, you'll discover why seeking advice from other people is such a waste of your precious time, and a better way to find the answers that you're looking for.

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Welcome to Life After Medicine, the podcast helping millennial health professionals leave the system and build a fulfilling career. I'm your host, Chelsea Turgeon, residency dropout turned six figure entrepreneur and world traveler. I'll help you discover your unique path to making an impact without the burnout because you were meant for more than 15 minute patient visits under fluorescent lights.

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Welcome back to another episode of Life After Medicine. Thank you so much for pressing play. In today's episode, you will learn why asking other people for advice won't actually help you find a fulfilling career. The skill that healthcare professionals lack that makes their career change needlessly frustrating and How to find the clarity in the answers you seek while saving so much time and headache. on Thursdays, I like to do an episode that is a Millennials hot take on common career change advice here is today's hot take. Asking other people for career advice won't help you find a fulfilling career. If it did, you would have a new career direction by now. You know this is true! How many times have you asked friends, mentors, colleagues what career should I do? What are my options? What else should I think about? How many times have you crowdsourced ideas in physician Facebook groups? Whenever I see posts there of people asking what should I do, I'm like, I don't know you! Why would you ask me for advice? You don't know me! We don't know each other. How many times have you even come to podcasts like this, hoping to find advice, hoping to find someone who can tell you what to do, and yet you're still stuck because you don't actually need advice, asking other people for advice is not going to help you find a fulfilling career. So let's talk about. First, what is advice? Let's go into a few definitions. So we can really understand what's wrong with getting advice from other people. Advice is an opinion that someone offers you about what you should do or how you should act in a particular situation. This has the ick written all over it for me because I don't want a should. I don't want someone else to impose their shoulds on me. Another definition for advice is a recommendation. Okay, so then I looked up recommendation. What is a recommendation? It's a suggestion or proposal as to the best course of action, especially one put forward by an authoritative body. This one really got me because it is about authority. We ask for advice because we think other people have some kind of authority. But let me ask you. Who's the authoritative body in your life? Like, who is the authority? Is it some stranger on the internet in a Facebook group that you don't know? Is it some career coach that you hire and pay to tell you what to do? Or is it you? Let's talk about why other people are not qualified to give you advice. Other people have their own lens, their own biases. They're looking at the world, not as it is. But as how they see it, this is how all of us look at the world. We look at the world from our own perceptions and projections. Usually the people you're asking advice from are not really any better off than you. So why do we do this? Why do we need advice from other people? How do we put other people as these authoritative bodies in our life? Well, part of it is we're insecure. We don't really trust ourselves to make the right decisions, especially if we ended up in a place for in a career where we're unhappy. And it's like, okay, all my decisions got me here. So how could I know what's best for me? Cause I got myself into this mess. So obviously I don't know what I'm doing so we lack self trust or we've eroded our own trust somewhere. We're worried about making the wrong decision. And then within that, we have this rigid idea of what's right and what's wrong. And so then there's this one narrow path to follow and we better get it right. And so we better ask everyone possible. Crowdsource, get the opinion, get a poll to figure out what's the right thing to do. We also don't know how to validate our own decisions. We don't know how to tune into ourselves to see if something is right or wrong. We don't have like our own process for validating internally. And so we look externally to validate our decisions. And I'm saying all of this and I get it deeply. Like I am not immune to this feeling the need to seek advice from experts. I recently made this mistake in my business and it cost me. Tens of thousands of dollars in months of time. It is so tempting to think that there's an authority figure out there who has the answers that we seek, because that's what I was doing. I hired a business coach because she had this evergreen funnel system. And I thought, okay, if I just follow her exact system and do like a plug and play of all of her templates, then I will get the results that she has. And so I implemented this strategy because I'm following this advice from someone else. But what I'm doing is I'm disconnecting from my own authority, I forgot that the way I built my business up until then was purely intuition. What I realized after making this big mistake after having this whole experience with like getting advice basically and then following the advice and it did not work out for me, for my business. What I realized is I cannot use other people's playbook. I can't ask advice for other people. To help me with what to do, I need to come to that from my own inner authority when it comes to what to do. So what program do I want to launch? What marketing strategy do I want to use? What social media platforms do I want to use? I need to make those decisions about what from my own inner authority. And once I am clear in myself on what I want to do. Then if there's a knowledge gap or a skill gap, then I can seek out the how in the form of advice from other people. I guess we could call it advice or just like a strategy. I can seek out the how from other people. So I decide I want to launch my program. I decide I want to launch a podcast. I decide the what. As I'm learning the how strategically, I still need to come back in and check it back with my own knowing, my own sense of what is right for me. When people come to me, and they maybe book a call, or they're just sending me a message on Facebook, and they say something like, I want advice, or I want recommendations, I immediately get the ick, and it's not for them as a person. It's just, If I were to give you advice on what to do, That is the lowest value way that I can help you. If you want advice, go to chat GPT. don't pay any amount of money for a person to give you advice. That is the lowest value way of helping and supporting someone. So what's the highest value way that I can support you? Instead of asking for advice, instead of outsourcing your authority, what is the best thing to do instead? I can teach you how to find the answers within yourself. I can ask you questions that help you drop in to your knowing, access your own truth, and arrive at your own clarity. I can help chip away at all the things that aren't David, all of the things that are not. Your actual inner knowing and truth, I can teach you how to connect to your intuition, to your gut feelings, to the things that you're naturally drawn to, to those that still small voice of like what excites you. That is where your clarity lives. And that is how you find your own path to fulfillment. Asking other people for advice might help you find a job or a career. But it won't help you identify the right path for you because the answers are not in an expert recommendation. The answers are not in someone else's opinion. The actual answers are within you. You already have all the answers. You just need to know how to access them. So if you have been going around pulling the audience, phoning a friend, asking everyone and their mom, Um, for advice, no shame at all. I get it. We've all been there, but I want you to just pay attention. Is this actually helping me or is this confusing me even more? Because I fully believe that asking other people for advice will not help you clarify your career direction. The thing that will help you is learning how to connect to your own intuition. To access answers and clarity that is already within you. So if you want to learn this skill. I am hosting a fun seven day workshop called the intuition kickstart To help you access your intuition and find clarity on your unique path to fulfillment. We are starting the challenge on March 16th. Head to the link in the show notes for more information.