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The Scrolls Of Reflection

by Zaib Shamsi

Welcome to The Scrolls of Reflection, a weekly exploration of engineering, human systems, resilience, ambition, failure, reinvention and the lessons that emerge when life refuses to follow the path you originally designed. Hosted by Zaib Shamsi, a Biomedical Engineering MSc graduate from the University of Liverpool with an extensive background in applied medical sciences and healthcare, The Scrolls of Reflection brings together two very different chapters of one journey. Before moving into biomedical engineering, Zaib developed an extensive academic and healthcare background spanning more than five years, earning a BSc in Applied Medical Sciences and developing an understanding of the human body, disease, clinical reasoning and healthcare. Personal circumstances led him to transition away from that pathway, relocate to Liverpool and begin building a different future. That transition became the beginning of a new chapter. Over the follow

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Episodes

  1. Scroll 4 - The Success Paradox

    When will you finally consider yourself successful? In the fourth Scroll of The Scrolls of Reflection, Zaib Shamsi explores the relationship between ambition, achievement and the strange experience of reaching something you once desperately wanted — only for it to quickly become your new normal....

  2. Scroll 3 - The Allostatic Breakpoint

    In the third Scroll of The Scrolls of Reflection, Zaib Shamsi explores the relationship between stress, adaptation, resilience and the hidden physiological cost of remaining functional under sustained pressure. Drawing on the concept of allostasis — the process through which the body maintains...

  3. Scroll 2 - Initiation Part 2

    Scroll 2 What can you build with everything that remains? In the second Scroll of The Scrolls of Reflection, Zaib Shamsi continues the two-part Initiation by exploring what happens after a major chapter of life ends — and the process of beginning to build again. Following his transition from more...

  4. Scroll 1 - Initiation Part 1

    What happens when the future you spent years preparing for is no longer the future you are going to live? In the first Scroll of The Scrolls of Reflection, Zaib Shamsi explores ambition, identity, resilience and the difficult space between one chapter of life ending and another beginning. Drawing...

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

Welcome to The Scrolls of Reflection, a weekly exploration of engineering, human systems, resilience, ambition, failure, reinvention and the lessons that emerge when life refuses to follow the path you originally designed.

Hosted by Zaib Shamsi, a Biomedical Engineering MSc graduate from the University of Liverpool with an extensive background in applied medical sciences and healthcare, The Scrolls of Reflection brings together two very different chapters of one journey. Before moving into biomedical engineering, Zaib developed an extensive academic and healthcare background spanning more than five years, earning a BSc in Applied Medical Sciences and developing an understanding of the human body, disease, clinical reasoning and healthcare. Personal circumstances led him to transition away from that pathway, relocate to Liverpool and begin building a different future.

That transition became the beginning of a new chapter.

Over the follow

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Zaib Shamsi

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What is The Scrolls Of Reflection about?

Welcome to The Scrolls of Reflection, a weekly exploration of engineering, human systems, resilience, ambition, failure, reinvention and the lessons that emerge when life refuses to follow the path you originally designed. Hosted by Zaib Shamsi, a Biomedical Engineering MSc graduate from the...

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The Scrolls Of Reflection is created and hosted by Zaib Shamsi.
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