A Specialized Guide for Medical Students: Mastering the Art of Healthy Competition
Dr. Praveen Tripathi, a faculty of psychiatry, is addressing students about a common and practical problem many face: comparing oneself with friends or classmates. This comparison, often related to academic achievements, can cause considerable stress.
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The Problem:
When preparing for entrance examinations or competing in academics, feelings of competitiveness can peak. Students may compare themselves with others, leading to frustration, distraction, and even jealousy if their friends or peers are performing better.
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Healthy vs. Unhealthy Competition:
While competition can be motivating, it becomes unhealthy when it causes someone to lose focus, become excessively concerned with others, or develop negative emotions such as envy.
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Recognizing the Issue:
The speaker emphasizes that feeling competitive or comparing oneself with others is normal. However, if it becomes an obstruction to one's preparation, steps must be taken to address it.
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Handling the Emotion:
How one feels might not be controllable, but how one responds to those feelings is. Instead of dwelling on negative thoughts or creating imaginary scenarios that fuel anger, one should respond in a healthier way.
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Tips for a Positive Response:
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Acknowledge that hard work leads to success, regardless of who's involved.
Instead of letting jealousy take over, turn it into motivation.
Talk to yourself positively, reminding yourself that you can also prepare well and achieve good results.
Conclusion:
The focus is on controlling the reaction to these competitive feelings rather than the feelings themselves. By changing how you respond to thoughts of envy or competition, you can turn them into positive motivation. It's not about stopping the comparison but managing it in a way that benefits you.
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Overall, this talk is a guide for students to understand and manage the natural feelings of competition and comparison, which are common in academic environments, and to use them as a positive force rather than letting them become an unhealthy distraction.
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1.01 : When is a comparison unhealthy?
2.18 : How can you control the feeling of unhealthy comparison?
3.32: How to properly react to a competitor's success?
3.54: How to neutralize the negative feeling of comparison?
4.36: How to convert the jealousy into motivation?
5.57: How to leverage your competitors' success for your own?
7.14: What if your competitors' strategies are not strategies you can follow?
8.07: How to find the right circle of friends to study better and without comparison?
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Dr Praveen Tripathi teaches psychiatry to medical students who are preparing for exams like NEET PG or AIIMS PG. His app, "Psychiatry by Dr Praveen Tripathi' has psychiatry video lectures which are used by medical students for preparation of NEET PG, AIIMS PG, PGI and other postrgraduate medical entrance examination. The psychiatry lectures given by Dr Praveen Tripathi are a hot favorite amongst medical students and his psychiatry videos have been used by lakhs of medical students. Apart from teaching psychiatry, Dr Praveen Tripathi is actively engaged with students and helps the strategize for the examination. Using his motivational videos, he tries to encourage the medical students and gives practical advises to improve their efficiency and skills.