617: Everything Works Until It Doesn’t - Dr. Jim Otten - a podcast by ACT Dental

Everything Works Until It Doesn’t

Episode #617 with Dr. Jim Otten

Have you ever thought that everything should work all the time, only to be frustrated when it inevitably doesn’t? Today, Kirk Behrendt brings back Dr. Jim Otten to explain that very problem and how you can think better and enjoy your career in dentistry more. Everything works until it doesn’t, so learn how to focus on the outcomes and push through the difficult times by listening to Episode #617 of The Best Practices Show!

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Main Takeaways:

Be curious and ask questions.

Your dentistry is going to fail eventually.

Don’t copy someone else—just be you.

Focus on the outcomes.

Define what success means to you.

Work hard and put yourself out there.

Quotes:

“It's important because we come out of dental school with a perfectionist mindset, and it's perpetuated in our profession by a lot of different things. It's perpetuated by a lot of myths that if you build this facility, they will come to you and you'll be successful. If you use this technique, you'll be successful. If you follow this protocol, if you go to this course and do this curriculum, you'll be successful. And everything works to some degree, But it doesn't at some point as well. And so what your mindset has to be is not in this perfectionism like the outcome’s going to be exactly the way you think it's going to be, but what you learn along the way.” (07:21—08:04)

“Jack Nicklaus used to say when he played a whole round of golf in a competition; the three or four days they play, he only hit two shots pretty much the way he wanted. He missed everything well. So our job is really to miss it well and realize that it doesn't matter what you use, who you follow, what material, what clinician, what protocol you use. You're still dealing with people who have a certain amount of their own particular disease resistance and host response, and they're all going to be different. You can't take responsibility for that. That's not your responsibility. Your responsibility is to help them decline at the lowest rate possible. And that means that they're going to decline. It's going to fail.”...

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