Doctor: Picking Up Attributes in the Hospital-Chapter 481 - 391: I Only Like Beautiful Female Teachers!

"This amount of money in North City can only be considered enough for basic living needs."

Zhao Heng said.

Although a few million was credited all at once, in North City, it really wasn’t much; at most, it reached the average level.

Having a house, a car, a job, and kids who could attend a good school—that’s all. Isn’t that what average means?

"You’re only in your twenties, and you’ve built everything from scratch. You’re doing really well."

Xu Man Ni looked at Zhao Heng seriously and said, making money is actually the hardest when it comes to earning your first pot of gold.

Nowadays, many young people seem to make a lot of money, but it’s mostly based on the premise that their elders gave them that first pot of gold. The first million is the hardest. 99.9 percent of

young people fall at this first hurdle.

After earning your first pot of gold, even if you do nothing, as long as you’re headed in the right direction, mere asset appreciation will far exceed working for a paycheck.

You could say you’re earning money while lying down.

"Among young people, your income is already top-tier. You can’t compare with the older generation, they benefitted from the bonuses of their era."

Pausing, Xu Man Ni added.

As the saying goes, money is hard to earn, and the trouble is tough to swallow, let alone Zhao Heng’s income that nears tens of millions a year. In North City, not everyone can earn over ten thousand a month.

Moreover, few like Zhao Heng earn purely through skill and intellect.

After all, in the high-tech industry where knowledge is most valuable, such as the current trend in artificial intelligence development, a Qingbei graduate with a doctoral degree in artificial intelligence tops out at around a million annually in the country—that’s the ceiling-level income an ordinary person can achieve through personal effort.

Now Xu Man Ni could say she is quite satisfied. With all conditions met, the only thing left is to live well henceforth.

Such good days aren’t something everyone can have.

"Feels like something’s missing.."

Zhao Heng muttered.

Career, wealth, love—Zhao Heng seemingly has them all now, and at levels others couldn’t reach even after a lifetime of striving. His parents are around too, and his father in late years can still engage in work he loves. It can be said that in every regard, Zhao Heng has reached the pinnacle for his age, and no one could find fault in him.

The American psychologist Abraham Maslow proposed the hierarchy of needs theory from the perspective of human motivations, emphasizing that human motivation is determined by needs. In each period, a specific need predominates while others are subordinate.

According to this theory, human needs are divided into five levels: physiological needs, safety needs, love and belonging, esteem needs, and self-actualization, forming and being met progressively from lower to higher.

In Maslow’s view, a starving person’s goal in life is to find food to satiate himself; a person lacking a sense of security seeks safety in life. Love and belonging, and esteem needs are similar—unfulfilled, they result in voids.

And [self-actualization], located at the top of the pyramid, is a path few can tread.

The five levels of needs, from low to high, include fulfilling basic needs, ensuring individual survival—guaranteeing safety and stability, eliminating fear and threats—establishing emotional connections, belonging to a group—receiving intrinsic value affirmation, external achievement recognition—maximizing potential, and realizing one’s ideals and aspirations.

Currently, in a short span of time, Zhao Heng could be said to have reached the fourth level. Next comes the fifth level, the highest need, which is to maximize one’s potential, continuously improve oneself, achieve everything commensurate with one’s abilities, and realize one’s ideal needs.

Put simply, it’s about becoming more and more the person you want to be!

"What’s missing? A child? A child might be a bit too soon.."

Upon hearing Zhao Heng’s words, Xu Man Ni’s thoughts wandered.

In another month, the head nurse position recruitment results would be out; then she’d need to stay in that position for at least a year or even longer before considering teaching at a university.

That means, having a child is at least a year away.

Of course, Xu Man Ni, already in her thirties, is about the right age to have a child.

"I’m not talking about a child. I’m not ready to be a dad just yet.."

Zhao Heng said somewhat helplessly, as Xu Man Ni’s thinking sprouted too quickly.

"Then what is it? The framework for the anesthesia center has already been set up, and old Gao in this director position won’t be around for much longer, and then you’ll be the director." 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝘦𝘸𝑒𝒷𝓃ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝒸ℴ𝘮

Xu Man Ni, still somewhat puzzled, said.

In a few years, when Gao Jun steps down, Zhao Heng will become the youngest department head in Eastern Hospital’s history at less than thirty years old. In the medical field, this is already an extraordinary achievement!

In terms of saving lives and fulfilling ambitions, Zhao Heng has already done quite well. After all, in his hands, many patients with rare and difficult diseases have been cured. Each patient cured is equivalent to saving an entire family.

"Nothing, just a passing thought."

Zhao Heng couldn’t quite figure out what exactly was missing in that [lacking something]. However, since there’s this subconscious feeling, it indicated that something has not been done to the best extent in some way, which he would strive to do better in the future.