# @carmen.strives on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DbnuOplTX76
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/68685195-carmenstrives-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-08-04T13:57:16.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Carmen | Medical student 🩺 (@carmen.strives) — https://gondola.cc/carmen.strives

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🧠 Intellectual Growth
Projects that change how you think , not just what you know
1. Read one book a month and write one takeaway that shifted your perspective
2. Teach what you learn (posts, tutoring, or casual conversations)
3. DM someone you admire for a short chat and learn from their perspective
4. Create your own productivity system
5. Train to be a chess.com beast

🎨 Creative Expression
Understanding yourself better through creativity
6. Learn a new creative skill (instrument/pottery/crochet)
7. Start a YouTube channel and tell your story honestly
8. Write your life as if it were your favourite movie
9. Film yourself when you’re sad and keep it in a private “sad album”
10. Revisit a childhood interest you once loved
11. Cook 30 new recipes in 30 days 

💸 Financial Building
Build stability early, without hustle culture
12. Invest 10% of your income monthly
13. Build one simple digital product (it’s okay if it flops because you’ll still learn)
14. Practise storytelling 
15. Learn one high-income skill (personal branding/software development/video editing/ funnel optimisation/etc) for 90 days 

🤍 Meaningful Connections
Projects that deepen relationships
16. Design a card game with your friends
17. Build a small community of like-minded people to grow together
18. Have one meaningful conversation with a stranger when you go out solo
19. Cook a meal for your friends intentionally
20. Write love letters to people you care about
21. Reconnect with a childhood friend 

💪Physical skills 
22. Train for a marathon/ Hyrox 
23. Learn dance 
24. Try an extreme sport that you would only do once in your lifetime (skydiving/bungee jumping/ scuba diving/etc) 
25. Learn basic first aid 
26. Grow herbs or microgreens in your home 

🎁 Giving Back
Meaning is found in people. Make your life bigger than yourself
27. Teach kids English
28. Join a fundraising challenge for a cause you believe in
29. Create free educational resources for students worldwide
30. Volunteer as a befriender 

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Follow carmen.strives for more life lessons I learned in med school *✩‧₊˚

#selfimprovement #medstudent #sidequest

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