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If You Wake Up Thinking About Your Failures, Listen To This | Dr. Jeremy London


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"I still wake up in the middle of the night thinking about some of those losses over the years." - DR. JEREMY LONDON

Picture this: You've performed over 6,000 heart surgeries, and even with the lowest-risk operations, 1-2% of patients don't make it home. That's the reality Dr. Jeremy London has carried for 25 years as a cardiac surgeon. What's remarkable isn't just his surgical skill—it's how he's learned to hold the weight of life-and-death decisions while staying deeply human. He shared something that stopped me cold: after a quarter-century of holding people's hearts in his hands, losing a patient still feels exactly as devastating as it did on day one. And here's the twist—he says if that pain ever went away, he'd quit immediately.

This conversation will change how you think about responsibility, attachment, and what it truly means to care deeply about your work. Dr. London reveals why the emotional burden of high-stakes decisions never gets easier—and why that's exactly as it should be. Whether you're a leader, parent, or anyone who carries weight for others, his insights about compartmentalizing without losing your humanity will shift something fundamental in how you show up for the people depending on you.

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