If you have any specific issues that you are having issues with, please comment below or message me and I will see if there is a stoic answer. The blog will use the ancient wisdom of the Stoics in a modern world.
To help young dentists (no age requirement) find the answers to their everyday issues in practice and in life. It seems that when I have an issue the stoics seemed to have the answers. Many of the young entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley are defaulting to Stoicism as their go-to for wisdom-personal and business. Today, studying and applying stoicism has become a trend. I realized that all of the material I had been reading had been discussed by the Stoics…mostly by the big three: Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus and Seneca. Pankey used Aristotle as the basis for his philosophy. At the time I also was studying at Pankey and knew the L.D. CBT was very helpful in helping me eliminate my burnout and get back to functioning. Albert Ellis the founder of CBT, cognitive behaviorl therapy had used ancient wisdom to develop his therapy. One day while reading a book on happiness I came across something that interested me. I began to realize that if I focused on every process rather on the outcomes (over which I generally had no control-which is a main tenet of Stoicism), I was happier. I realized that everything has a process – yes- I actually used the term “trust the process,” way before sports teams started using it. I looked for the structure in everything. So I became obsessed with the examination and case presentation. I’ll say that again…everything has a structure. Calmer – but nowhere near the calmness that I continued to develop.ĭentally, with the help of some really good mentors I became aware of “structure” in dentistry. Things began to get less chaotic and more organized. The best books I read dealt with emotional health and emotional resilience and general well-being. Books on depression, books on burnout, books on finance and leadership. I read business books, psychology books, dental books and philosophy books. I was committed so I supplemented the courses with reading. I needed to find a strategy that would work under any circumstances, and boy would the conditions change through the years. There was no one teacher or mentor that totally fit who I was…I had to find more common denominators. I took every course, some good, some great and many, worthless. I was depressed and I believe that cortisol production was a factor in my developing type 2 diabetes. In my books I describe the stress I had through my first fifteen years of practice. Serene was not how I would have described my early career. The calmness that he referred to didn’t come naturally to me. Later that night I reflected on my career and felt I owed him a better answer.
I gave him a quick answer, but it was incomplete.
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Apparently he was having some issues with…staff, equipment, treatment planning, handling new patients, the schedule…well, feel free to add to the list. He asked me how I was able to remain so calm with all of the things that go on in a dental practice. One day, during the transition while we were both taking a coffee break he said something that caught me off guard. I was lucky enough to sell my practice to a very competent dentist and a genuinely nice guy. In my last post on I explained that I recently retired from clinical dentistry after 46 years.
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