Career and Life Planning Guidebook for Medical Residents

Learning Cycles, Performance and Your Success Network High Low Performance SOURCE: Hall (1993, p. 15). 0 1 2 3 0 1 2 3 4 5 0 1 2 3 4 5 Ex T Es M Ex Ex T Es M Ex Ex T Es M Ex Key Ex = Exploration T = Trial Es = Establishment M = Mastery Career Age You: Lifetime Learning As a Protégé and As a Mentor: We’ve covered a lot of ground together in this chapter, from understanding the importance of mentoring in the context of your success network to actually mapping your future success network in line with your career and life goals. That said, we would be remiss if we did not discuss the importance of lifelong learning to success above and beyond your near term goals as a protégé, the one being developed, or as a mentor as you “pay it forward” in helping others. Lifelong learning has been defined as the ongoing, voluntary, and self-motivated pursuit of knowledge for either personal or professional reasons. It not only enhances social development, active engagement in life and personal development, but it also enhances your resilience and employability. Just as lifelong learning is critical to your technical abilities as a physician, lifelong learning is also critical to help you modify and adapt your success network going forward. This applies to you receiving support as a protégé and to your own ability to develop others as you become a mentor. In her book, Mindset: TheNewPsychology of Success, Dr. Carol Dweck points out that you can take one of two key views on your own development that profoundly affect your personal and professional success: a fixed mindset or a growth mindset. The key elements of each appear in the diagram below. Your Success Network 407 WWW.PHYSICIANCAREERPLANNING.COM