Dental Students Episode: Overcoming Fear, Levelling Up and Coping with Failure – IC026

Being a dental student is tough - you're learning a clinical and surgical discipline alongside all the challenges of relationships, studying and social interactions. In this episode with Dr. Lincoln Harris, we talked about three key themes relevant for dental students: overcoming fear, leveling up your skills, and being able to cope with failures. https://youtu.be/sl3CcLJYQUk Check out this full episode on YouTube Need to Read it? Check out the Full Episode Transcript below! “You only get confident once you DO the thing that you're afraid of” Dr. Lincoln Harris. Highlights of this episode: Students pursuing growth vs Students enjoying uni life 12:07Overcoming Fear 16:44Coping with Failure 26:01Discovery throughout Dental Career 31:36 For Dental Students who want to have a head start in their Dental Career, join us LIVE on Friday 30th of September with Dr. Lincoln Harris. Register Now! For Dentists who want to see Lincoln Harris LIVE in London for a full-day keynote lecture: From Class 1 Composites to Complicated crown preps. Email or DM us on Insta for a super special student rate. Check out Ripe Global, one of the biggest groups in Dentistry with 80,000+ members! If you enjoyed this episode, then do check out this 5 Lessons from Dr. Lincoln Harris  Click below for full episode transcript: Opening Snippet: The reason that failures hurt so much when you're a new grad is because you always think it's your fault. And you think it's your fault because you're no good. Jaz's Introduction:This episode is specifically for dental students. So if you're a dental student, keep listening. If you're a dentist, I think you'll actually still gain a lot from the latter parts of this episode. Who doesn't love listening to Lincoln Harris after all, but if you're a dentist and you haven't checked out some of the big episodes, we've had this year, like Basil Mizrahi on Shell Crowns, we've had Ed McClaren on Ceramics, and of course, the other Lincoln Harris episode on Retraction Cords, do check those out, if you haven't already. They're huge. But if you're listening today, about three things we wish you'd known as a dental student who wants to improve, who wants to no longer be scared, and who wants to be able to cope with failures, then this is the episode for you. Thanks so much for listening wherever you're listening from guys. My name is Jaz Gulati. I'm the chief Protruserati and I've got Lincoln Harris, again, to talk about all those things I just mentioned, essentially about all the things that are all emotions I had as a student, so I want to help you guys out. So just to give you a bit more information about the three main things we're discussing today is upskilling as a student, because what frustrations I had was that, as a student, you are just learning the basics. If you can just get the very, very, very basics correct, then the rest you can build on. I was really hungry as a student, I really wanted my composites to look nicer. I really wanted to know more about occlusion. And I just felt as though I didn't have the access now. Now in this world we live in in 2022, with Instagram and etc. The education is everywhere. It's actually amazing. We had such little to learn from when it comes to the big bad world of internet, when we were students, you guys, you students have got so much at your disposal. It's actually amazing. But it's also a little bit confusing and it can be a bit scary as well seeing all this dentistry on social media. And you can't even take a bloody impression. And I know I've been there, right. So it's one of those tricky things, which poses its own unique challenges. I mean, I think you're in a far better position than I was, as student. I think it's great that you can see what's out there. It's great that you can pick up tips from all these educators posting great stuff, great cases online for you to learn from. But at the same time,