Psychiatrist reveals changing your life every ten years helps you gain ‘influence’ 

A psychiatrist has stated that changing your career industry every decade is the key to feeling fulfilled.

Nassir Ghaemi, a professor of psychiatry at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, has said that he believes that “the biggest obstacle to success is success.”

Speaking in psychology todaythe specialist believes that people who feel too comfortable in any area of ​​their lives can stop progressing and end up feeling dissatisfied.

He added that to keep progressing, people need to change an important part of their life, like a hobby or their job, every ten years.

The psychiatrist argued that making a change could lead to greater rewards and make you happier than you were doing up to that point, adding that you’ll never know if you don’t try to live differently.

“You have to change what you do or how you live every ten years,” he said, adding that the time frame can change, depending on whether you’re failing or succeeding.

If things go wrong, he said it might be worth making a change after five years.

In the meantime, if a career is going well, he suggested extending it for a maximum of 15 years.

‘Too often, we think that we should make a change only if things are not going well or if we are failing in some way.

‘That’s so. But what we don’t realize is that we must make changes even when we are successful,” she added.

Nassir believes that people who get too comfortable in their career stop progressing after a while and stop feeling satisfied with the work they do.

He also said there was no need to feel stuck in a subject area of ​​expertise, instead suggesting that a person only progresses by constantly challenging themselves.

The psychiatrist said he had witnessed his own daughter, who had just graduated from college, struggle to choose a career because she saw a job as something she would do for the rest of her life.

Nassir argued that no one should think in those terms, but should instead want to explore all the subjects that they can be good at, which requires stepping out of their comfort zone.

He added that some people get stuck in certain fields because they are successful at it, without considering that they could be even better at something else.

The psychiatrist added that people will never reach their full potential if they don’t explore other areas in which they could end up dominating.

Nassir cited the work of happiness expert Aaron Brookes, who is an advocate of changing his line of work every decade.

Brookes was a twenty-something musician who later earned a Ph.D. in economics and became a professor for 15 years.

He went on to run the nonprofit American Enterprise Institute and later became an author, a Harvard professor, and a happiness guru.

Nassir argued that with each career change, Brookes gained more influence, thanks to his multifaceted career.

He also mentioned David Sackett, one of the founders of ‘Evidence-Based Medicine’ (EBM), which has been described as ‘the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of the best current evidence to make decisions about the care of individual patients’. .’

Sackett believed that if you become an expert in a field, you should quit, because becoming an expert prevents you from making further progress.

He argued that people who are experts spend the rest of their lives defending ideas that occurred to them early in their career.

He also thought that you should move on to mastering another field, perhaps even more important, to achieve greater things in life.