“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”
~Albert Einstein
Hello and welcome to Meeting of the Minds, the official blog of the U T Faculty of Law’s Health and Wellness Student Advisory Committee.
We’ll be posting about a wide range of health and wellness topics: everything from students sharing their struggles with physical and mental health difficulties, through wellness tips most likely relevant to all law students – e.g., how to get the most out of limited time to eat, sleep, and exercise. So for example, you might want to learn what kinds of relevant resources the U of T campus has to offer, or to keep up with the recent research on how exactly the mind works (…and at times doesn’t).
But you’re a busy law student – you don’t have time for these things – you need to focus on school! And the clinic! And what if you don’t get hired?! Augh!! …You definitely don’t have time for wellness … right?
Actually, whether or not you want to make time for “wellness” for its own sake, attending to it is in your strategic interest. As Einstein observed, “happiness is the key to success.” Let’s say that (for some strange reason) a successful career is your only goal. Well, it’s no secret that a lot of lawyers are miserable – shouldn’t you give yourself a crucial competitive advantage?
Yours truly,
The Health and Wellness Student Advisory Committee
Meeting of the Minds 