This YouTube video features Aaron Hartman, MD recounting childhood experiences of being bullied (including a group he calls "the Devastators" who forced him to do push-ups) and how those experiences, combined with a faith- and future-oriented outlook, contributed to a resilient, forward-focused mindset and career ambition to become a doctor.
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I was the kid in middle school, in elementary school that no one liked. So I was just kind of like, there's always one kid in elementary school no one likes. Now it just was. That was me. So they called me names and there's this group called the Devastators. They made me do push ups in the bathroom. And I remember much time I was going to fake them out. I'm not gonna go to the bathroom. I'm gonna go to the classroom. They came in the classroom, made me do push ups, you know, oh, my gosh. But like, just the way I was. But it's kind of weird because, like, my response to that as a kid in fourth grade, a kid in fifth grade taking second grade, I mean, that was, this is elementary school. God's on my side. He's not in your side. I'm gonna be a doctor when I grow up. We'll see where you're at in 10 years. We'll see where I'm at in 10 years. And I just kind of like my default because of my upbringing was kind of future thinking. The thing that's interesting about that, it almost like rewired my thinking.