The Imperfect Clinician

Send us a text message. Why not?Welcome to the Season 4 of our podcast!Thank you for being with us until the end of Season 4! In the last episode in this series of our podcast we wonder why the world makes us feel not good enough. Do social media really make us feel inadequate? Why do we constantly attempt to compare ourselves to others? How much does vanity impact our goals and ex

Send us a text message. Why not?Welcome to the Season 4 of our podcast!We hear it daily. 'I am really bad with IT'. What people mean by it? What are they trying to tell us? Is it a tactic to downplay expectations? Is it lack of confidence? In this week's episode we explore cognitive bias that prevents us from being fair to ourselves. We look at Dunning-Kruger effect and how realisi

Send us a text message. Why not?Welcome to the Season 4 of our podcast!This week we complete our Gridlock Triangle with a discussion about lack of self-confidence, the differences and similarities with self-esteem, ways to work on it and impact on limiting personal progression. Does perfectionism have anything to do with our confidence? How much does it matter what language do we u

Send us a text message. Why not?Welcome to the Season 4 of our podcast!In today's episode we continue expanding on our Gridlock Triangle of Progression concept by introducing Doubts. Our internal critic, and sceptical self often stands in a way preventing us from achieving our full potential. Doubts can be helpful as they inject a dose of reality to the considered matter. What if t

Send us a text message. Why not?Welcome to the Season 4 of our podcast!This episode introduces a brand new concept we developed together in order to find our personal barriers on the way to better ourselves. Talking about fear of failure is the first step to understand our fragile but desired wish of progression. From everyday fears, procrastination to atychiphobia, dealing with fa

Send us a text message. Why not?Welcome to the Season 4 of our podcast!Are we all creative? We can't be! Or are we? What does creativity mean for us, why is it worth to start noticing it and how it can impact our everyday life? We discuss some definitions, examples and personal experiences also allowing to see if clinicians can and should be creative at all? What creativity actuall

Send us a text message. Why not?Welcome to the Season 4 of our podcast!Remember the feeling where people organise your day for you? How much impact do you have on your own day? How much control do you need? How much control do you actually have? This week we look into planning our days - having courage and commitment to be in charge of making it happen. How do we help others withou

Send us a text message. Why not?Welcome to the Season 4 of our podcast!This episode is all about offering help and asking for it. Care is usually delivered at a cost to helpers. We explore the challenge of asking for assistance, why it is easier to offer help than to ask for it, how to avoid exhaustion whilst offering help and overcoming barriers to asking for help. What does a sto

Send us a text message. Why not?Welcome to the Season 4 of our podcast!How to Argue in the 21st Century? What does it actually mean - agree to disagree? In this episode of The Imperfect Clinician, Mike and Yuen explore the topic of agreeing to disagree and arguing. They share their personal experiences and perspectives on how they approach different opinions, conflicts, and debates

Send us a text message. Why not?Welcome to the Season 4 of our podcast!We talk quite a lot about reflection... Engaging in reflective practice helps us understand our thoughts, feelings, actions, and reactions in any given situation. It is through ongoing reflection that we gain insight, self-awareness, and the ability to shift perspective. Reflective approach provides an opportuni