I have a question for you: Are you happy practicing dentistry? If not, what would you be willing to do to change that situation? Take more courses? Learn more skills and integrate more techniques? Upgrade your facility? Make some staffing changes? Move? And what would you be willing to give up to make those changes …
As dental professionals, the reason we are where we are in life is because we are highly driven individuals. Consequently, we tend to be overachievers relative to others, and we are often willing to allow our lives to get significantly out of balance in order to get everything accomplished. Following our dreams and creating our …
We are all incapable of predicting what will make us happy, and that is because happiness is a feeling, and not an outcome. This truth creates quite a conundrum, as we are all constantly encouraged to “create a vision for the future, that if created, it will lead us to a happier life.” But the …
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Does living a meaningful life lead to a life which is longer, healthier, and happier? You bet. Accumulating evidence suggests that a global sense of meaning in life is related to physical health, including increased longevity and reduced morbidity. Psychologists and philosophers have long been interested in the human experience of meaning …
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Most of us think we listen closely to our patients, but what we frequently do instead is selectively listen, mix it with a form of cognitive bias, apply what we remember about similar experiences, and then form an assumption about a relative stranger. At its core, this represents a form of self-deception, designed to speed …
