“There is this kind of tension between what you are on the inside and what you are on the outside professionally, and whether you have to make a choice between two different things or (if) you can blend it together. And I think that leads to a lot of satisfaction when people get it right. And I think it leads to a sort of lifelong (feeling of) ‘I wish I had done this’ or ‘I wish I could go back and do that’ if you ignore the other part of yourself.”

— David Hindin

 

By trade, David Hindin is a surgeon based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He’s currently a fellow in the Surgical Critical Care program at Stanford University’s School of Medicine.

 

He graduated with a medical degree from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in 2011. He later went on to serve the bulk of his medical career so far at Temple University, where he completed his residency in the hospital’s general surgery unit in seven years.

 

But on the side, David also makes time to explore his creativity. And one of his most successful creative endeavors has been his YouTube channel, where he shares content around his experiences in medicine. To date, David’s channel has amassed more than 30,000 subscribers.

In this conversation on The Videocraft Show Presented By Video Husky, David joins host Jon Santiago to discuss a host of topics including:

• Why it’s valuable to have both creative and rational pursuits.
• The importance of writing in his video creation process.
• How he’s learned how to concede creative control to his video editor.
• Deciding to narrow down his niche on YouTube.

 

And much more...

 

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Relevant Links

• David Hindin on YouTube
• David Hindin on Instagram
• Stanford Biodesign Fellowship
• Atul Gawande - Being Mortal
• When Breath Becomes Air - Paul Kalinithi
• Casey Neistat on YouTube
• How Einstein's brain was literally stolen and sliced up (and what science learned)
• Getting Things Done By David Allen
• David Allen - The Art of Getting Things Done (GTD) (#384) - The Tim Ferriss Show
• Building a Second Brain With Tiago Forte

 

Chapters

• (00:00) Intro
• (03:17) Start of conversation with David
• (04:23) Stanford
• (06:01) Critical care fellowship
• (08:50) How David got into medicine
• (10:33) Combining creativity and logic
• (11:46) His role models growing up
• (12:45) Double majoring in Biology and English
• (15:27) Going to med school
• (18:19) How med school influenced his creative journey for YouTube
• (20:04) The identity of being a doctor
• (23:27) Shining light on the “humanity” of being a doctor
• (27:58) What inspired David to start making YouTube videos
• (33:18) When he decided to narrow down his niche on YouTube
• (34:50) Imposter syndrome as a doctor and as a content creator
• (37:51) His target audience
• (39:54) How he does research for his YouTube videos
• (41:30) His process for writing, scripting, and filming his YouTube videos
• (47:51) Getting Things Done by David Allen
• (50:40) His process for editing his YouTube videos
• (53:12) Letting go of creative control to a video editor
• (59:05) David’s future plans for his YouTube channel
• (01:04:16) Where to follow David

 

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Production Credits

• Producer: Nikki Vicente
• Editor: Ingrid Sarayba
• Graphics: Paolo Lopez