Interview: Dr. Myron Rolle on Oxford, the NFL and Neurosurgery

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🗓️ 28 May 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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In this episode, Amira Rose Davis talks with Dr. Myron Rolle about his recent book The 2% Way: How a Philosophy of Small Improvements Took Me to Oxford, the NFL, and Neurosurgery. They discuss his upbringing in a Bahamian-American immigrant family, completing his long-time dream of becoming a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford, his transition from the NFL to becoming a neurosurgeon and how he balances career and family life. This episode was produced by Tressa Versteeg. Shelby Weldon is our social media and website specialist. Burn It All Down is part of the Blue Wire podcast network. For show notes, transcripts, and more info about BIAD, check out our website: www.burnitalldownpod.com To help support the Burn It All Down podcast, please consider becoming a patron: www.patreon.com/burnitalldown For BIAD merchandise: https://www.bonfire.com/store/burn-it-all-down/ Find us on Twitter: twitter.com/BurnItDownPod; Facebook: www.facebook.com/BurnItAllDownPod/; and Instagram: www.instagram.com/burnitalldownpod/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, Flamethrowers, Amir here, and I am thrilled, and I am thrilled to be joined in conversation today with Dr.
0:15.0	Dr. Myron Role, former FSU standout, and his journey from the NFL to Oxford as a road scholar,
0:23.4	although I think that was actually flipped in order. And then now as a neurosurgeon has been,
0:30.0	uh, a thing of wonder. Um, but it is not impossible journey, which we now know, um,
0:36.4	obviously through his work, but because we have
0:38.6	a new book that talks all about the journey and the lessons that Dr. Roll learned along the way.
0:45.6	So I am so excited to share in this space to chit chat about the book, the 2% way, and to talk
0:53.9	a little bit about this intersection of football and health care and
0:59.8	just defying expectations. So welcome to burn it all down. Thank you. Thank you for having me.
1:05.3	Absolutely. So first and foremost, writing a book in a pandemic is hard. So congratulations on getting this together.
1:15.5	What made you want to tell your story in this form? Because your story has been documented over the
1:22.5	years in a variety of ways. But what compelled you to write this book right now? Yeah. So typically what I do after a
1:32.8	surgery or after my days at the hospital, I give my wife, Latoya, a call. And just one particular
1:39.6	24-hour shift, I was leaving Mass General Hospital up in Boston. And, you know, she says, you know,
1:45.9	Maher, and I think you should write a book. And I said, whoa, I said, really? I said, I'm in the
1:50.3	dog gyms of residency. It's cold in Boston. No one wants to hear from me. They don't hear my story.
1:55.1	But she says, every time we go out to eat, every time we go somewhere, people come up to you and tell you how your story has inspired them.
2:02.3	And I remember when you told me that you read Gifted Hands by Ben Carson and that planted
2:07.2	the seed of neurosurgery in your mind. Now look at you. You're a neurosurgery. So maybe your story
2:11.3	can have that level of impact and inspiration on someone. So it was really my wife believing
2:16.5	in me more than I believed in myself. And as you mentioned,
2:19.5	my story had been told many times before, but not like this, where I'm able to be vulnerable,
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