Why is accepting that the dental career and life itself are fundamentally unfair the starting point for getting ahead?
Because the alternative, complaining about unfairness, consumes the energy needed to do anything about it. Life is unfair from the first cry at birth, and getting more so by most economic measures. Being born into a relatively free society under rule of law is its own kind of lucky outcome that most people on Earth do not experience. Inside that already-lucky position, comparisons between dentists practicing a few hundred yards apart and earning dramatically different incomes are themselves the result of unfair advantages that some doctors built and others did not. The acknowledgement that unfairness is the baseline frees the doctor from the trap of expecting the playing field to flatten. It will not. The doctors who name reality, accept it, and turn attention to building their own unfair advantages outpace the ones who keep waiting for fair conditions to arrive. Fair is a fantasy. Unfair advantages are the operative variable.
If the answers you are finding here resonate with you, my team and I work with a small group of clients each year. The next step is a complimentary Discovery Consultation and Practice Review with Dr. McAnally.
