I'm a shy dentist and hate speaking up in group settings. Will that hold me back? Let me push back gently. If you truly couldn't talk or put yourself out there, you'd be bankrupt right now. Think about it. You started or bought a practice, you face new patients every day, you ask people to say yes to big treatment. You already do the hard version of speaking up. A learning group is the easy version. Nobody is going to force you to talk or do anything that makes you squirm. But here's the pattern I see over and over. Dentists [...]