About Me — Just Emil

From ER to Thailand to Medium

Emil
About Me Stories
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6 min readDec 14, 2023

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I have been many things in my life. These days I’m just Emil. Shot by CCPhoto of author.

There were multiple times in my life when I thought I had won the game.

After medical school, I started training as an anesthesiologist in one of the most competitive cities in the UK.

I left that to build an online business that saw me traveling around the world and making nearly $50,000 in a single month.

I got very good at ‘winning’ any game society threw at me, fulfilling the conditions set by that particular game.

Fitting into a template that society had laid out.

Checking the boxes I was being told to check.

The problem was that they weren’t MY games.

If asked whether I was happy, each time I would have replied with something like:

“Yeah, I suppose? No, yeah, for sure, I’m happy. Why do you ask?”

In reality, there was still a feeling that *this* wasn’t it.

A dissonance. An unease.

In my time playing the various games, I observed that most people don’t act on that feeling.

But through a dumb luck that I can’t define, I did end up taking action.

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Emil
About Me Stories

My goal is to learn and debate with kindness, honesty & humility.