Staying totipotent

It seems to me that I like to think a lot about what I want to do with my life . . . that’s all well and good but like I told Dr. Comi (one of my fav profs today), the MD will make me a better businessman, the MBA will make me a better doctor and the combination will make me a better person.

Maybe what I should do instead of trying to figure out what narrow specialty I want to do is to remain as flexible and open to new things and new experiences as I have always been. I have always trying to combine stuff US and China, business and medicine, economics and literature when what I have always really valued most is flexibility, the ability to shop around, have options, try new things, change course, dabble, sample. As I start to enter 3rd year of med school with new opportunities and increasing pressure on finding new things to do, I think I will try to stick with what a friend of mine who is in his sixties and very well established once told me, “I still don’t know what I want to do when I grow up”.