Well, it's been a while since my last podcast, but let me explain why, and let's talk about this year and how we can learn from it.  We might as well become stronger from this, no? What's the alternative?  

The people who did well had a different way of looking at this year, but don't get me wrong, not everyone experienced this year equally, but how we make choices affects our outcomes.  Life is multidimensional and complicated it’s a platitude that needs more explanation.  

This episode will be invaluable as I talk about the four types of experiences that we all have. What experiences help us, and how we can modify them. One last thing, I want to wish you a Happy and Safe Holiday season as we end this crazy year. It will go soon enough and we will soon start afresh in 2021.  

Welcome to The Introverted Doctor, the podcast that uncovers myths, mistakes, and misconceptions that hold healthcare professionals back from living their best life at work, home, and play. Each week, Dr. Lalit Chawla will present tips and strategies that you can begin applying right away! He's a full-time Family Physician, Adjunct Professor of Medicine, International Lecture and Writer.   

In his former life, he was a professional Illusionist and still uses his skills in his workshops, lectures and in the clinical setting.  He incorporates magic and illusions in his lectures and teaches healthcare professionals how to use magic in a clinical setting and in the rehabilitation setting.  

www.TheIntrovertedDoctor.com

“Think of the Next Person”                                                       - Jesse Thistle   

Jesse Thistle is Métis-Cree, from Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. He is an assistant professor in Métis Studies at York University in Toronto.  He is the author of the National Best Selling Book- From the Ashes.   

He has won many awards for his academic work including: The Governor General’s Academic Medal in 2016 and Kobo Emerging Writer Award, Indigenous Voices Award, Odessa Award in 2014, Dr. James Wu Prize in 2015  He was voted as one of the 50 Most Influential Torontonian in 2019 He is a Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation Scholar and a Vanier Scholar.  

In this interview he shares: His process through rehab and how he had to learn about self-care. He shares how he manages life after having fallen from a 3.5 story building and the after effects of that. He’s very candid as he shares his opinion of doctors and so much more. In this interview we cover how he wrote this incredible book, how he overcame his struggles with addiction to drugs and alcohol and became an award winning professor despite his learning setbacks.   

In this interview we cover: Why he considers this a love story How he got the book contract from Simon & Schuster His process of how he wrote the book His philosophy and advice on how to make changes in one’s life  What is the definition of homelessness and what does that mean in terms of the Indigenous experience as a result of history  

What healthcare professionals can do to be better stewards of care History of how residential schooling came about, why they were built far away from reservations and the consequences of that. What happened in the residential schools A review of some of the legal practices that were done specifically at that time. You may be surprised to learn about them. 

Jesse’s response on how to bring empathy back to a clinical setting. How and why the demographics of homelessness has changed from the typical single male to youth, single families, women, elderly veterans, indigenous and immigrants.  He shares a very insightful perspective on how we as a society have changed the way we look at housing. What advice he’d give his younger self Advice to drug addicts   

We cover so much ground in this interview. I hope you enjoy my conversation with the resilient and talented Jesse Thistle.   

You can see our interview via YouTube and/or going to the website TheIntrovertedDoctor.com   

Welcome to The Introverted Doctor, the podcast that uncovers myths, mistakes, and misconceptions that hold healthcare professionals back from living their best life at work, home, and play. Each week, Dr. Lalit Chawla will present tips and strategies that you can begin applying right away! He's a full-time Family Physician, Adjunct Professor of Medicine, International Lecture and Writer.   

In his former life, he was a professional Illusionist and still uses his skills in his workshops, lectures and in the clinical setting.  He incorporates magic and illusions in his lectures and teaches healthcare professionals how to use magic in a clinical setting and in the rehabilitation setting.  

www.TheIntrovertedDoctor.com

The average individual has 50 to 60,000 thoughts a day- some of them are pessimistic, defeatist with self-limiting beliefs about ourselves. We all do this, but there is an easy way to reframe those thoughts.  

Have you ever thought:   “I lack discipline,” “I don’t exercise,” “I procrastinate,”  “I have trouble with people’s names,”  “I don’t read enough.”  “I’m a bad father, mother, friend etc.”  

Take a quick listen about how to use the word “yet” to live better in all areas of your life.  It’s a short podcast with a quick lesson that serves you and others in your world that you can help.   

Welcome to The Introverted Doctor, the podcast that uncovers myths, mistakes, and misconceptions that hold healthcare professionals back from living their best life at work, home, and play. Each week, Dr. Lalit Chawla will present tips and strategies that you can begin applying right away! He's a full-time Family Physician, Adjunct Professor of Medicine, International Lecture and Writer.   

In his former life, he was a professional Illusionist and still uses his skills in his workshops, lectures and in the clinical setting.  He incorporates magic and illusions in his lectures and teaches healthcare professionals how to use magic in a clinical setting and in the rehabilitation setting.  

www.TheIntrovertedDoctor.com

If you want to change a habit, change your needs structure.  Kelly was sobbing inconsolably, the deep heavy cry that occurs when a person can't even catch their breath. I sat down in front of her and waited; the box of tissue was in front of her, and she was already nursing her tears. I tried to remain calm, not knowing what she would say. I had never seen her before and had no clue as to what was happening in her world.  My old self would have hoped for a way out, my new self knew a way to help her improve herself.  Every habit, good, bad or indifferent is driven by three of the six human needs.   

In this episode, I’ll share how I’ve used it to help a person dependent on alcohol overcome his addictions by applying human needs psychology. I’ll also share how I was able to help Kelly understand why her husband was not returning her texts and not coming to see their children, which he adored. I think you’ll find it interesting which sentence from Kelly triggered his departure.  

Learn how you can realign habits, choices and relationships by understanding the six human needs.  This is part four of a four-part series of the six human needs framework. This framework will help you understand, with greater clarity, why people do what they do. It will also help change your behaviour and help others do the same. You’ll see why people’s relationships continue and why they decline.    

This teaching has helped so many of my colleagues, medical learns, and patients, and they have found it one of the most important things they've ever learned.   

Why? Because six human needs psychology helps us understand our decisions and behaviours, which then helps us develop awareness about the choices we are making. So often we are unaware of why we do what we do.   I've used this to help individuals improve their relationships with their partner, "troubled teenager," improve their financial situations, change a habit, and so much more. The best part is that it is a profoundly simple framework that helps create change.    

I promise you these lessons are critical in understanding human behaviour. I've broken it up into four episodes because the lessons in each are valuable and profound. I'm sure you won't be disappointed.   

Everyone must meet these needs, and as you'll see, we meet them in different ways. 

Welcome to The Introverted Doctor, the podcast that uncovers myths, mistakes, and misconceptions that hold healthcare professionals back from living their best life at work, home, and play. Each week, Dr. Lalit Chawla will present tips and strategies that you can begin applying right away! He's a full-time Family Physician, Adjunct Professor of Medicine, International Lecture and Writer.   

In his former life, he was a professional Illusionist and still uses his skills in his workshops, lectures and in the clinical setting.  He incorporates magic and illusions in his lectures and teaches healthcare professionals how to use magic in a clinical setting and in the rehabilitation setting.  

www.TheIntrovertedDoctor.com

If you want to feel better, help yourself or someone else. 

We've read about celebrities who have committed suicide because they did not feel fulfilled despite having riches, fame and a massive level of variety and excitement.   

One key reason people get into depressed states or commit suicide is that they don't fulfill their need for growth and contribution.  

These needs give a person's life meaning and enhance the feeling of joy and realization. We've all experienced these emotions at some level, even if it was brief. We feel connected and feel an inner harmony when we were meeting these needs.    

When we are growing and contributing, we feel we are doing something meaningful, whether it's for ourselves or others. Think about what makes you happy; it will have an element of growth or contribution in it.   

This is part three of a four-part series of the six human needs framework. This framework will help you understand, with greater clarity, why people do what they do. It will also help you change your behaviour and help others do the same.   

It has helped so many of my colleagues, medical learns, and patients, and they have found it one of the most important things they've ever learned.   

Why? Because six human needs psychology helps us understand our decisions and behaviours, which then helps us develop awareness about the choices we are making. So often we are unaware of why we do what we do.   I've used this to help individuals improve their relationships with their partner, "troubled teenager," improve their financial situations, change a habit, and so much more. The best part is that it is a profoundly simple framework that helps create change.    

I promise you these lessons are critical in understanding human behaviour. I've broken it up into four episodes because the lessons in each are valuable and profound. I'm sure you won't be disappointed.   Everyone must meet these needs, and as you'll see, we meet them in different ways.   

Welcome to The Introverted Doctor, the podcast that uncovers myths, mistakes, and misconceptions that hold healthcare professionals back from living their best life at work, home, and play. Each week, Dr. Lalit Chawla will present tips and strategies that you can begin applying right away! He's a full-time Family Physician, Adjunct Professor of Medicine, International Lecture and Writer.   

In his former life, he was a professional Illusionist and still uses his skills in his workshops, lectures and in the clinical setting.  He incorporates magic and illusions in his lectures and teaches healthcare professionals how to use magic in a clinical setting and in the rehabilitation setting.  

www.TheIntrovertedDoctor.com

Different people do things for various reasons. Those reasons are not always obvious.  

Someone may donate money to a local charity because they believe in what they are doing. Another person may give so they look important in others' eyes. Another may see it as good PR for their business, while another gives because their child benefits from that organization’s efforts. Motives vary, but we don’t always think that is the case.  

This is part two of a four-part series of the six human needs framework. This frame will help you understand, with greater clarity, why people do what they do. It will also help you change your behaviour and help others do the same.  

It has helped so many of my colleagues, medical learns, and patients and they have found it one of the most important things they’ve ever learned.  

Why? Because six human needs psychology helps us understand our decisions and behaviours which then helps us develop awareness about the choices we are making. So often we are unaware of why we do what we do.  I've used this to help individuals improve their relationships with their partner, "troubled teenager", improve their financial situations, change a habit, and so much more. The best part is that it is a profoundly simple framework that helps create change.   

I promise you these lessons are critical in understanding human behaviour. I've broken it up into four episodes because the lessons in each are valuable and profound. I'm sure you won't be disappointed.  

Specifically, in this episode, I talk about the need for recognition (significance) and the need for love/connection. Everyone must meet these needs, and as you'll see, we meet them in different ways.  

If you deal with a narcissist or have trouble understanding why you have a problem with connecting with others or others have trouble connecting with you then, this will undoubtedly help you. You'll understand things such as why people play the victim and why some people play the hero. There is so much in this episode.   

Welcome to The Introverted Doctor, the podcast that uncovers myths, mistakes, and misconceptions that hold healthcare professionals back from living their best life at work, home, and play. Each week, Dr. Lalit Chawla will present tips and strategies that you can begin applying right away! He's a full-time Family Physician, Adjunct Professor of Medicine, International Lecture and Writer.   

In his former life, he was a professional Illusionist and still uses his skills in his workshops, lectures and in the clinical setting.  He incorporates magic and illusions in his lectures and teaches healthcare professionals how to use magic in a clinical setting and in the rehabilitation setting. 

www.TheIntrovertedDoctor.com

Understand Your Needs then you'll Understand your Actions Understand Other's Needs then you'll Understand their Behaviours   

Do you find people are judgmental? 

Have you ever judged a person and thought, "why do they behave that way?" 

Have you ever had trouble changing a habit or trying to help another person improve theirs?  Understanding the reasons why people do what they do can be challenging. Sometimes we don't even have a clue as to what motivates our own behaviour, let alone theirs.   

Have you ever wondered why it's easy for you to do certain things and why other activities for you are such a chore? There is a superb explanation for that.   

The lessons unveiled in the next four episodes have been the most popular lessons I’ve shared at conferences, teaching rounds and with patients.  It is the six human needs framework, which has helped so many of my colleagues, medical learns, and patients. It has helped them understand what motivates human behaviour.   

The six human needs psychology helps us understand our decisions and behaviours which then helps us develop awareness about the choices we are making. So often we are unaware of why we do what we do.  I've used this to help individuals improve their relationships with their partner, "troubled teenager", improve their personal financial situations, change a habit, and so much more. The best part is that it is a profoundly simple framework that helps create change.   

I promise you these next four episodes are critical in understanding human behaviour. I've broken it up into four episodes because the lessons in each are valuable and profound. I'm sure you won't be disappointed.  In this episode, I talk about the need for certainty and uncertainty. And we certainly are living in uncertain times as we navigate the pandemic.  How are you handling life events presently? Are you managing well? If you're not, this episode will help shed some light as to why it is a challenge for you.    

Welcome to The Introverted Doctor, the podcast that uncovers myths, mistakes, and misconceptions that hold healthcare professionals back from living their best life at work, home, and play. Each week, Dr. Lalit Chawla will present tips and strategies that you can begin applying right away! He's a full-time Family Physician, Adjunct Professor of Medicine, International Lecture and Writer.   

In his former life, he was a professional Illusionist and still uses his skills in his workshops, lectures and in the clinical setting.  He incorporates magic and illusions in his lectures and teaches healthcare professionals how to use magic in a clinical setting and in the rehabilitation setting.  

www.TheIntrovertedDoctor.com

Have you ever been lied to or been conned and thought how did that happen to me? Have you ever read events in the news and thought, “how in the world did that person get away with those abuses for so long?” 

At some time in our lives, we’ve all got the short end of the stick because we missed clues that should have safeguarded us. We didn’t listen to them and trusted the person and then in retrospect, felt annoyed with ourselves.  

There are good reasons why this happens, and this episode is about how to avoid pitfalls when making judgements when we interact with others. I’ll also look at how to navigate trust so we can still connect with people; after all, if you don’t know how to trust others, you’ll live a very cynical and paranoid life. 

Most importantly, I’ll talk about Malcolm Gladwell’s book, Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know, which unravels many myths and mistakes on how and why we make erroneous judgements about others and how we convey trust.

Malcolm Gladwell is noted for the way he analyzes social dynamics and challenges conventional wisdom. He’s written “The Tipping Point, Blink, The Outliers, What the Dog Saw and David and Goliath.”

We’ll explore many areas in this podcast and answer the critical question, “why do introverts look uninterested or aloof in social situations” and why are they judge so harshly. We’ll look at how to look surprised, and I’ll share with you how and why I had to fake a surprised look.

I’m sure you will walk away more knowledgeable and prepared when you meet your next stranger.

Welcome to The Introverted Doctor, the podcast that uncovers myths, mistakes, and misconceptions that hold healthcare professionals back from living their best life at work, home, and play. Each week, Dr. Lalit Chawla will present tips and strategies that you can begin applying right away! He's a full-time Family Physician, Adjunct Professor of Medicine, International Lecture and Writer.   

In his former life, he was a professional Illusionist and still uses his skills in his workshops, lectures and in the clinical setting.  He incorporates magic and illusions in his lectures and teaches healthcare professionals how to use magic in a clinical setting and in the rehabilitation setting.  

www.TheIntrovertedDoctor.com

Well, it's been a while since my last podcast, but let me explain why, and let's talk about this year and how we can learn from it.  

We might as well become stronger from this experience, no? What's the alternative? The people who did well had a different way of looking at this year, but don't get me wrong, not everyone experienced this year equally, but how we make choices affects our outcomes.  

Life is multidimensional and complicated it’s a platitude that needs more explanation; and I’ll explain. This episode will be invaluable as I talk about the four types of experiences that we all have. What experiences help us, and how we can modify them.  

One last thing, I want to wish you, and your friends and family, a Happy and Safe Holiday season as we end this crazy year. It will go soon enough, and we will soon start afresh in 2021.

Welcome to The Introverted Doctor, the podcast that uncovers myths, mistakes, and misconceptions that hold healthcare professionals back from living their best life at work, home, and play. Each week, Dr. Lalit Chawla will present tips and strategies that you can begin applying right away! He's a full-time Family Physician, Adjunct Professor of Medicine, International Lecture and Writer.   

In his former life, he was a professional Illusionist and still uses his skills in his workshops, lectures and in the clinical setting.  He incorporates magic and illusions in his lectures and teaches healthcare professionals how to use magic in a clinical setting and in the rehabilitation setting.  

www.TheIntrovertedDoctor.com

One of the hardest things to accept is that there are beginnings, and there are endings. This podcast is NOT ending yet, but eventually it will, it’s only natural.  However, this episode is about why I continue, why I started, and why I thought about stopping but never did. I share with you how I measured success in this creative endeavor and what success means to me vs. what others think it should mean.  

I also have an essential idea that I strongly feel everyone should be doing. It’s fun and will be inspiring for you and also for the next generation.   

The title “The Last Episode: Wisdom that Matters to You” may be misleading, but I promise that the explanation will make sense.  This is a short episode.  

Welcome to The Introverted Doctor, the podcast that uncovers myths, mistakes, and misconceptions that hold healthcare professionals back from living their best life at work, home, and play. Each week, Dr. Lalit Chawla will present tips and strategies that you can begin applying right away! He's a full-time Family Physician, Adjunct Professor of Medicine, International Lecture and Writer.   

In his former life, he was a professional Illusionist and still uses his skills in his workshops, lectures and in the clinical setting.  He incorporates magic and illusions in his lectures and teaches healthcare professionals how to use magic in a clinical setting and in the rehabilitation setting.  

www.TheIntrovertedDoctor.com