Omar Usman – Decisive Deep Dive Reality Test Your Assumptions WRAP Framework
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The speaker discusses the importance of reality tests in pharmacist roles, as pharmacists often have to conduct research and conduct research based on assumptions made by their work. They give examples of how pharmacists faced similar challenges in their day-to-day work and how they were able to learn from their mistakes. The speaker also emphasizes the importance of reality testing and providing small experiments to help determine if small claims are realistic.
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The second step in the RAP framework is
r, reality test your assumptions.
When I was in college, I worked as
a pharmacy technician in the hospital, and so
that exposed me to the day to day
workflow of what goes on in a hospital
pharmacy.
And I had a number of friends who
were,
either on their way to pharmacy school or
in pharmacy school. Now I understand what that
what that actually implies.
They're going through maybe a 6 or 7
year program,
they've put in probably close to 6 figures
into their education,
all for something they're going to end up
doing for the next 30, 40, 50 years
of their lives. And so I would ask
them like hey, what do you think a
pharmacist actually does? Have you ever worked in
a hospital or volunteered? And they would say
no. And I would say well, okay, what
do you think the day to day looks
like? And they said well, you know, I
imagine I'd probably be walking around with a
doctor, going and checking on, you know, like
a patient chart, making recommendations, and you know,
this and that. And I was like actually
the day to day workflow looks absolutely nothing
like that. A pharmacist in a hospital
is, at least when I was working there,
is probably glued to a computer, and they're
entering orders all day, and so orders are
coming in and they're just typing them out,
checking allergies, doing this, doing that, and the
whole time they're entering orders, they're getting interrupted,
here's a stat order, here's an urgent order,
there's an operation happening here, a patient coded
there, you know, all these things are going
on, nurses are calling in, they're taking phone
calls, so they're doing 6 or 7 things
at once and they sometimes don't even have
time to get up and take a 10
minute break, and when they do get a
break and they turn around from their computer,
there's a technician like me standing there with
a tray or a cart full of medications
that need to be checked off before they
go out to the floor and they're given
to patients.
And when I would explain that day to
day workflow,
people would just look at me
with that glazed look over their faces like
oh, I didn't know that. I didn't realize
that that's what the day to day looked
like. And yet they had already made the
commitment
because I've always known that I've wanted to
be a pharmacist. I know it's a good
career, I know it's a respectable career, I
know that this is what I want to
do, this is what I was meant to
do, this is what I'm passionate, you know,
all these different things. I know that this
is right for me,
but they don't actually know what that day
to day looks like. They've never reality tested
their assumption of wanting to go to pharmacy
school. And so when we make a decision,
find ways to reality test your assumption. In
the first video, we talked about that banana
bread, and we gave that example.
Just try to do a small catering order,
see if someone's willing to buy $200
worth of pastries from you to reality test,
Are these actually good? Find ways to do
small experiments, and if you want more about
this, check out my video on 3 things
I learned from the book Little Bets by
Peter Sims.