Omar Usman – Decisive Deep Dive Reality Test Your Assumptions WRAP Framework

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.