Insights:

• Hard work is essential for success and realisation of one’s ambition but however it should not be in excess and at the sacrifice of the family friends and physical and mental health.
• Young surgeons must learn to differentiate very quickly between hard work from stress. While hard work has not killed anybody, there are many people who have died of stress. Stress usually comes out of poor performance.
• “Work Life Balance” is essentially “Work Wife Balance” and once the family is in alignment with the ambitions and aspirations of a person, most problems are solved.
• The power for hard work is given by “Vitamin P” (Passion) and not by the drive for “Vitamin M” (Money)