Putting Knowledge To Use & Sharpening Your Focus with Dr. Justin Bhullar

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As academics, it can be easy and even quite enjoyable to continually be feeding ourselves new knowledge but if we never put that knowledge into practice, it means nothing. Dr. Justin Bhullar joins us on the show to share his journey of pushing through some tough obstacles to arrive where he is today. His optimism and work ethic are inspiring and he has lots of great insight on learning, improving and leading that you can learn from and implement into your own practice.

Justin explains how he turned his pain points and weaknesses into strengths and motivators. He also emphasizes the importance of the people you work with and how to take your leadership to the next level. Justin leaves us with the powerful idea that we should plan to fail and explains how that mindset will lead to resilience and strongly affect our ability to learn and grow.

Key Quotes:

“The path to success, like we talked about, is not a straight line.”
“Knowledge is not power, knowledge is put to use as power.”
“Just knowing is not enough. You have to put it to use.”
“If you’re devoting all of your time to learning and none of it to implementation, you’re not really going anywhere.”
“People can see if you are genuinely interested in them.”
“Why you’re doing what you’re doing is so much more important than what it is you’re doing.”
“In order to embark on this journey, you must plan to fail.”
“Fail, learn, move on quick.”
“Have fun, get a mentor.”