Deepak Chopra on Overcoming Challenges  (Make Your Passion Your Paycheck)
Channel: Jamie Zimmerman, MD
Date: 2015-09-21

Deepak Chopra on Overcoming Challenges for "Make Your Passion Your Paycheck" with Jamie Zimmerman, MD

o How do you overcome fears that can arise?
• Well, for me it was kind of automatic.  When I walked out on my professor, my wife was pregnant.  We didn’t have any money.  The only way I could survive was to work in the emergency room, and the way was $6/hour.  People at McDonalds get more than that.  But, that wasn’t the first time I faced hardship.  When I came to the country after medical school, it was the same.  I received $200 every 3 weeks as a paycheck, so I was used to hardship, so abandoning one hardship to pick up another one wasn’t a big deal.  And the very fact I left my very comfortable home, with my very affluent family.  My father who is a famous cardiologist, internationally known.  I was obviously a risk-taker.  I liked the adventure of uncertainty.  Later, I realized, there’s a lot of adventure in uncertainty, because it allows you to find creative opportunities.  I think I was born for adventure.”