Is it a dental thing, or is it just a thing?
Let's say you decided to do the Outlaw triathlon at the end of July this year, but you hadn't ridden a bike since you were a child, couldn't really swim, and the last time you ran was to catch a plane.
Just because you pay the entry fee (now quite significant) doesn't give you the right to finish, does it?
Just because you paid for it, bought a bike, a trisuit, and a fancy, expensive pair of carbon running shoes, doesn't mean you're going to cross the line.
Between paying the entry fee and crossing the line, there is an extraordinary amount of hard work, dedication, and application, which might make you more worthy of wearing those shoes or riding a bike.
It seems that in education, a subset of people basically pay for it the way the people above pay for a triathlon.
They decide that they're going to throw themselves into a subject and then invest in the education, but then turn up and don't understand why (in spite of not doing any of the work associated with it) they're not any better than when they started.
For all of us, though, this is a bad habit, isn't it?
Jumping from here to there, thinking that if we invest the money in it, it will work, and not understanding that all that money does is open the gate to a place where we have to put in the effort.
Throwing money at a problem is rarely the solution. I'm sure you will see this in the place where you work.
If, on mass, your team come to you and tell you that they want more money, and you give them all more money, they generally come back quite soon afterwards and ask for more money.
Generally, when people come and ask for more money, they're asking for more than more money; they're asking for you to put in the effort to change the culture, the leadership, and the sense of what it's like to be in the place you're in.
Generally, a problem in front of you is a challenge that you accept, and it comes with hard work, sacrifice, and dedication.
Often, money is just the start, but it is certainly not the solution, and it certainly doesn't buy your way out of getting the work done.
Blog Post Number - 3792