Wednesday to Friday at The Campbell Academy this past week was the immediate full arch live skills course.
This was presented by Andy and Alex and John and Karen Walker and one or two other guys dotting in and out.
On Friday afternoon in an unscheduled break, I had the chance to sit in and chat to the guys who were there but when we have these informal chats on any of the courses they always return to business and work/life balance.
I’m sure it’s not me that drives the conversation in that direction (but perhaps it is) but the underlying reason why most people are trying to advance themselves in dentistry is to make it better.
It struck me as I was speaking to the guys (and they were a wonderful, wonderful group) that almost all of us are absolutely obsessed with outcome and devoid of any attention on process.
It’s fine to set your sites to reach somewhere better `usually best if it’s not related to a financial number) but it’s only really wise to do that when you understand that the joy will come from the process of trying to get to a place that you’ll probably never reach.
I do CPD in clinical dentistry to try to make me ‘a little bit better’.
I didn’t set a Rony Jung master class this year to become Rony Jung or to reach a situation where I could apply what he was teaching me to make as much money as possible to sell my business in 394 days from now.
I sat in to try to pick up 1 or 2 little things that might make me a little bit better and then try and do that on the next course.
The most important thing on any of the courses that we do is the ability to take ourselves out of our day-to-day and understand what we all seek is for things just to be a little bit better over and over again as part of a process.
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