In case it never occurred to you, breaking the mould and breaking free of institutionalism takes time and money.
You have to invest the time and you have to invest or lose the money for a while in order to break the mould and change the habit. Without doing that you will “keep doing what you’re doing and keep getting what you’re getting”
Picture it like a glass wall (not a glass ceiling) one that you have to break through to get to the next room which takes you to another level as a person, or as a professional, or as a dad, or as a husband, or as a triathlete. Some of the walls are thin as anything, you can touch them with your finger (like the Hunger Games) and they break and you can step through and move to the next one. Some of them feel like 16ft thick Perspex and every time you bang against it, it never moves and just hurts you. The way to get through these walls is to stop, walk back, take some time for a long run up and hit them as hard as you can. It’s the only way to burst through the walls. It is painful, hard work and it takes time and often investment but it is worth it in the end to get to the next place which is better than the place you have come from.
It’s the same with implant dentistry too and we try to tell this to people we are training. It is a five year process. You have to step back, make time and spend money to get there but the place you get to is more fulfilling and better. The dentistry is more interesting and the impact to patients greater.
Feel free to apply this analogy to any aspect of your life.
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