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Continuing Your Learning After Dental School

Dr. Ginger Bratzel talks about the importance of being a life learner long after the school books are closed. From one dentist to another we both know how hard we had to work to earn our degree. We invested a lot of time and money into achieving the status of “Dr.”, but I don’t want you to think that the last day of dental school (what a relief it was!) was your last day of learning. Most of us in our nature are lifelong learners, a personal and the ‘business of business’ learner. While I know you take many CE courses each year to improve your skills and maintain your dental license. You may be a master or fellow of an advancing training dental organization like The Academy of General…

Thinking Like A Kid

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Re-learning some of the childlike ways of thinking that years of formal education has taken away that can actually help your practice. As a dentist you have endured many years of formal education, practice, and honing your expertise to develop your skills. We trained a long time to earn the ‘dentist title’, and learned more than you ever thought you could in dental school. But one thing formal education does is ‘beat’ your natural innate ‘success drivers’ out of you. So I want to share some insight on how thinking more like a kid again can actually grow your practice. In higher education you are told every day to grow up. It is a continual progress to leave our child-like state behind and adopt more adult ways of thinking and…