Episode 213: Building a Sustainable Career in Medicine with Dr. Rob Orman

Again, emphasize the tapestry here.

An incredible work ethic, a CFO mentality of running numbers and seeing the importance of that, and then coming in on the human side of things, completely getting retrained and mixing all of that.

And as I talked to Larry in our pre-call, that's just what came through so strongly.

So we're in for some great learning here.

And we're going to hear some stories here because he shared a few.

And I want to kick off with the plowing story and the radiator cap because that to me is just fascinating.

Can you go down that path for us?

Well, absolutely.

As I mentioned, growing up on a farm significantly shaped the lens through which I see life.

It's about growing things.

being a steward, developing others, working hard.

And one of those things for me comes, I have so many of those little stories and anecdotes, but my dad was amazing.

He's probably the man I will never be.

He was just patient, kind, hardworking.

But when he was a young man, he had entered, as a farmer, he had entered plowing contests.

And the thing that I didn't know until I grew up around it was that the reason that farmers drive so slow in their trucks when they're driving down the road is they're looking at the fields and not just the crops, but they're looking at how straight were those rows that that farmer had planted.

That was the big thing.

So dad grew up and he had this ability to just plow straight as could be.

So I could hardly wait until it was time for me to learn how to plow.

So I was probably 14 or 15 and he took me out and we had a field that was about a half mile long.

And so I sat on the fender and he plowed and we had a five bottom plow.

So it's turning the ground over and leaving a furrow.

And I sat on the fender and he plowed all the way down.

and plowed just straight as a whistle.

And then he turned around and plowed all the way back.