I have been writing an article about the planning of set-ups for Incognito invisible lingual treatment, to be published in The Journal of Orthodontics this July.
Having gone through the usual thoughts of “Why did I agree to do this? It is completely taking over my life, I was busy enough already before I took this on!” and so on, I went on to have a much more positive thought: What remarkable insights happen when you sit down night after night and think deeply about something that you do every day.
Things become clear when you write about it, read it, edit it, improve it, shorten it, read it again, come back to it the next day, read it again, add to it, remove things from it, write a conclusion of the whole process and read it again before finally deciding it is good enough to push ‘send’.
Spending so much time looking objectively at how I work, I discovered a clarity about how to do things better. We rush around every day, busier and busier, trying to do too much at once and never thinking about one thing for long, always hoping to become better at the most valued skill of the 21st century - multitasking. We seldom stop and contemplate something deeply and explore it critically. Try it, it may surprise you!
