Charles Tadros, MD
December 15, 2025
Saint Louis, MO
MERITOCRACY
Also found in Little League to farm clubs in baseball… effort, talent, perfection in practice, investment of a parent’s and athlete’s time.
Fear, terror, panic
She’s spot on!
Jeff is thinking about competition taking away Amazon business and about having to fire people because the robots and AI that he has paid for to replace his hires.
Jeff is thinking about a sprint (chronic panic is not sustainable, it morphs into trauma)… because people are replaceable and interchangeable (and they don’t last anyway), so squeeze as much as you can out of them.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DGJZtu5yNiJ/?igsh=MWZvZHBjNmxucW5seA==
Charles Tadros, M.D.
March 20, 2025
Saint Louis, Missouri
John Gurdon, PhD
[ A reminder that being great in school isn’t the final destination, but loving one thing enough to be super good at it can change your life and the world.]
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHGBMa-sk6q/?igsh=MW04eDdhOGY4d3A5ZA==
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https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2012/gurdon/facts/
Charles Tadros, MD
March 13, 2025
Saint Louis, Missouri
My texting to a patient under my care. He has prolonged, severe anxiety, panic, and depression…
Even these trivial, sometimes remedial actions mean something important in your health and in your relationships.
We are so used to making big decisions, taking on big risks, big responsibilities, and big challenges that we trivialize and minimize the ultra small stuff (which may add up to big things).
Whether it’s in financial investments, self-knowledge, relationships, or personal health… lots of small steps can be taken over long periods of time.
Ohh, there are no ultimate finish lines… maybe milestones, but never a finish line where we can flop down and we’re done forever. The journey…the progress, (the lack of progress), the lessons, the people we meet who influence us, and the people whom we affect are THE meaning in our lives.
Peace,
Charles
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[Patient responds, with a “Thank you”.]
My reply:
You are welcome.
Ancient wisdom… we’ve just added some (non-wisdom producing) drugs and procedures to it in your case.
Charles
Imperfections = Opportunities
All around us, people who have high functioning autism, bipolar diagnosis, depression, anxiety, attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder, post traumatic stress disorder, obsessiveness and compulsion, can be some of our more creative, more driven thinkers, creators, and producers.
Now we are valuing imperfections in our AI:
https://fortune.com/2024/12/24/ai-hallucinations-good-for-research-science-inventions-discoveries/
Charles Tadros, M.D.
December 24, 2024
Saint Louis, Missouri
So many of those who are suffering emotionally don’t have insights to what perpetuates their suffering. If they do have an understanding, they may not have the words to communicate these insights to those who are trying to help.
Charles Tadros, M.D.
November 10, 2024
Saint Louis, Missouri
We wonder why regular people don’t trust information from authorities, experts, big companies, and governments…
Charles Tadros, M.D.
April 21, 2024
Saint Louis, Missouri
My thoughts to my daughters about hiring and promoting people..
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5adVNMu2ow/?igsh=YnFua3VzZmNzZDZ4
The clip is a bit too simple, but one of my biggest mistakes is feeling sorry for the people I hire to do unpleasant tasks. However, this speaker is correct.
Many people thrive in jobs or performing certain tasks that I was never good at accomplishing. I unconsciously projected my dislikes onto them…” No smart person would want to do that job (for very long).” I have been very wrong. All people want and need to feel a sense of accomplishment, which includes many people who thrive at tasks that were never my forte.
People want jobs where they get a sense of accomplishment, a sense of community, and are compensated (a combination of title, pay, flexibility in their work schedule and flexibility how they are able to do their work [ie choice], as well as their responsibilities).
Look to see if a person is effective (gets the job done, AND gets the job done right, AND gets the job done on time), THEN look to see if they can be efficient ( gets the job done in the least/ reasonable amount of time, using the least amount/ reasonable amount of energy and resources).
Pay extra for the people who are able to accomplish all the items, above, AND can document their steps and insights/tricks AND can coach/teach other staff (or, for select tasks, can teach your clients!!).
Paraphrasing Steve Jobs… hire/promote those who don’t want the job, but feel that they need to do/take the job because nobody else will do it as well as they can/ as well as that job needs to be done.
XoXoXo,
Dad
Charles Tadros, M.D.
April 7, 2024
Saint Louis, Missouri
Asymmetric risk-reward potential.
Many situations in life have an asymmetric outcome (potential outcome) that can pay you (reward you) an inordinate amount.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/legal-team-voided-musks-tesla-230039595.html
Charles Tadros, M.D.
March 2, 2024
Saint Louis, Missouri