Chapter 4 Part 1: You reap what you sow, and the dentist pulls a tooth

Dear Teacher Xu: I am a reader of "Tuqiong Dialogue Record". I read this book again today, and I am more eager to get in touch with you.Standing at thirty, you still have a little bit of ability to distinguish right from wrong. Your writing is very sincere and frank.In 1992, I was admitted to a medical university majoring in stomatology.In my freshman year, I took a year off from school because I was dissatisfied with my major and didn't adapt to it. Afterwards, my self-psychological adjustment was effective, and I lived peacefully and self-sufficiently until the end of my senior year.

An accidental opportunity gave me the idea of ​​changing my major. I applied for a graduate student majoring in finance in the Department of Economics of Peking University, but failed.But I feel that I have learned a little written knowledge.After graduating in 1998, he has been working in the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery of the First Affiliated Hospital of the Medical College.Oral and maxillofacial surgery is a difficult but not economically beneficial department.Frequent 24-hour shifts plus surgeries take up a lot of time.I thought of going abroad because I couldn't see hope.I have attended New Oriental's GRE winter vacation class, I took the GT test once, and my grades are below average, so I haven't applied yet.

Now I have come to a crossroads again: continue to take the GT test, worrying about jumping into a beautiful trap again; apply for a graduate student majoring in prosthetics (a major in oral cavity that is more expensive and less risky)?Even if it takes 5 years to get a direct doctor; or open a dental clinic?The license is a bit promising, but the funds and the source of the disease are not sure, and more importantly, the room for future development; if you continue to stay in the department, although you have some technology (intermediate and advanced surgery) and social relations. , power struggle) is too big, and may be poor for a lifetime...

I have a girlfriend who shares weal and woe and firmly opposes going abroad.Parents are against it too.Fortunately, I can still get happiness from hard work anyway, and I don't have too much greed for money, but money is hard to say. In the final analysis, I am a person with upper-middle intelligence, average mind, ability to take risks, honest and trustworthy, a little ambitious, idealistic, and a little lazy.After taking a lot of detours, I am eager to get the guidance of Teacher Xu.I don't know if I can listen to Teacher Xu's teachings on the phone. baya Dear Dr. Baya: First of all, I want to congratulate you on having a girlfriend who loves you and understands you.Such girls are rare.This is really your luck!You have to revel and be thankful for this, and take care of her for the rest of your life.

Secondly, I suggest that you take the path of becoming a dentist, hanging the pot to help the world, and pulling teeth to make money.This is the only or the best choice and way out for dentists all over the world.All roads lead to Rome, and the road to dentistry lies in the teeth.If you give up this natural cause and try to do something else, you will only make your life path narrower and narrower, and you will end up in a huge predicament. Don't say that you "don't have much greed for money", let alone fall into abstract thinking about money.Only the hungry will ignore food; only the poor will hate wealth.And you just need to ask yourself: What is your only specialty and greatest skill?What is the only technology you can contribute to society and serve others?Isn't it just tooth extraction, cleaning, orthodontics, teeth grinding, etc., which are related to teeth?

Teeth are the root of happiness!The value and status of teeth to our perception of happiness is not only more important than thought, but even more noble than sex!Assumption: Popes and monks theoretically do not need sex, so sex may be superfluous to them.Through religion, he gets all the happiness of the spirit; but the only way for him to get all the happiness of the body is his teeth—if his teeth are always painful, fasting will not be good.Food and sex have no sex, and food is tasteless. What kind of life is that! "Good teeth, delicious food..." I'm not kidding you.I am telling you very seriously, what a great career gold mountain you have, with golden teeth row upon row, piled up into a mountain of your wealth, yet you are sighing about the barrenness of the land under your feet and worrying about your own way out of life.Sin, sin!

I strongly recommend you, forget about going abroad for dog days!Make an effort to open a clinic and be a good dentist—and you must do it yourself, so that it is in line with the development direction of the Chinese nation pointed out by the Three Representatives!When your medical skills and clinics are relatively successful, take your girlfriend who may become your wife to travel to dentists all over the world to see how they run clinics, provide services, and perform operations.Bring back the experience of these investigations, continue to do, do, and do... Heal many people, earn a lot of money, consume and pay taxes, enjoy pleasure and charity, have children (only one), serve the elderly, and finally find yourself one day His teeth also began to loosen and fall out, so he realized that he was old too, so he retired, spent his old age happily, and solemnly passed the surgical forceps to his son...

When you look back on the past, you will be proud to find that your life was not in vain - your hair fell out, and your teeth are still intact! Several of my friends who are dentists are like this, and in the capital, they have become celebrities admired by people.Although, the only regret is that the moment when people need them most is always the most painful moment of the body: toothache. Xu Xiaoping Dear Teacher Xu: I really didn't expect to receive your reply, and it was so fast, I feel very surprised and very happy.After reading your book, I can feel your mind and experience.What you are doing is a huge project. I believe that your thoughts and concepts will be abstracted and conceptualized to become ideological things, and communicated in more vivid language to thousands of people who are pursuing happiness, feeling pain, or People who can be happier.

You suggested that I become a practicing dentist, something I've dreamed about since I was a student.However, medical care is a special industry. In the United States, there is a strict admission system. In China, certain social connections are required to obtain a medical license.Not everyone can do it.If I can get a license, I will do what you say, no matter how much money I can raise, or what the results are, I will try.If I succeed in the future, I will go to study for an MBA or a master's degree in hospital management, and then come back to continue my development. If the opening fails, I think I will definitely not pursue a master’s degree. I should resign immediately and go to Arrail Dental to develop, accept its training, and experience its culture.

However, I still can’t help but ask a question that I asked last time but you didn’t answer: Is it possible for me to go to a foreign company to do something that has nothing to do with dentistry, and through hard work, I can get admitted to the TOP10 business school and study for a famous brand? University MBA.I was so desperate for success. Besides, my girlfriend is an assistant to the manager of a European luxury goods company. She has an English major (upgrading to a bachelor’s degree), has worked for 8 years, and has been in charge of personnel, finance, import and export, and has experience in interpretation and negotiation. She is the number two person in the company.I think if she goes out to study MBA, she will have greater development, and she should have more room for development than me in her career.

Thanks again for your reply, eager to hear your opinion. baya Dear Dr. Baya: Thank you for your letter, your letter makes me happy! I am happy not only because you agree with and accept my thoughts, but also because you mentioned Arrail Dental.At the end of my last letter, I said that I knew several celebrities who opened dental clinics. One of them was Mr. Zou Qifang, the owner of this famous dental clinic.He is my good friend. Mr. Zou graduated from the No. 1 Wharton Business School in the United States and returned to China to start this business.I was in awe when I first heard of him coming back from Wharton a few years ago, but when I heard that this practice was his business, I immediately had a toothache - I was so stupid and thought: Wharton, It should be Wharton, why pull your teeth? Thinking about it now, this was my value blind spot a few years ago.In the book "Tuqiong Dialogue Records", I once talked about this blind spot and I am glad that this blind spot was cleared later.This change in my understanding actually represents a change in Chinese society's values ​​of education and career.The medical industry is one of the largest industries in the United States and other countries in the world; medical management is one of the most famous special courses of Wharton Business School; and starting one's own industry is one of the highest symbols of MBA success; this industry, whether it is Carrier Dental Extraction, or entering Procter & Gamble to sell toothbrushes for cleaning teeth, in fact, all have the same purpose - to dedicate our knowledge and wisdom to the people we serve, and to the great business of the market economy. Even my old man has this cognitive cataract. It can be seen that, as a doctor, you also suffer from the squint of values, which is understandable—our blind spots all come from backward thinking and concepts!May I ask, which is more important, which is more sacred, Kanya or Xiaoping consultation, or F4 singing?Who do you go to first when your teeth and soul break out in pain at the same time?Definitely Zou Qifang is the first and Xu Xiaoping is the second.As for F4 - let yourself go to F yourself! (It's not fair!) Let me continue the story of Arrail Dental. If there is suspicion of advertising, readers, please forgive me. I don't want their free services-dentists, dentists, although I praise you, when I think about it, Makes me sore! Just a few days ago, I met Mr. Zou Qifang, whom I admire, and he told me that Arrail Dental has now grown to nearly ten branches, and is facing greater development.China's dental market is extremely large.We were so excited.We also talked about many beauties, who are charming when they don’t smile; who do they want to scare when they smile?In fact, these are tetracyclines and the authorities that approved them, which ruined a generation, but gave unlimited business opportunities to Mr. Zou and you! I asked him, where do the people who manage the chain clinics come from?He said: The directors of all chain stores are doctors trained from Arrail Dental's first clinic!Ah, congratulations, the future director of Arrail Dental Clinic!After the strategic goal is established, there is still a question of how to get to the destination.Your problem was indeed exposed in your second letter.Here I want to elaborate: Western dentists, from the first day they enter the dental school, what they think about and what they do is to prepare for their own practice and practice in the future.Therefore, they are not only qualified in the field of dentistry, but also in the related links of opening clinics: such as business awareness, customer service awareness, and market development awareness (if there is no tooth to bring someone, the dentist’s tooth, no matter how good it is, there will be nothing to eat. !), public relations awareness (for example, Mr. Zou Qifang is well aware of this), and even you must know some office politics, because if you open a clinic yourself, how to balance the relationship between the secretary and the dental hygienist?How to maintain effective incentives for employees while pursuing the maximization of "residual value"? Of course, in China, there is indeed the government relationship you mentioned... These are the new century, new opportunities for dentists and all other ambitious people in all walks of life - if you want to use your professional skills to win business opportunities in the greatest market - Questions that must be considered.What is the nature of the problem, actually?It is the new era we are living in, which has new requirements and challenges for the quality of talents!Since your past education has not prepared you for this, you must learn to surf on the top of the waves and hit by hitting.Dentists ten years ago may only be able to extract teeth, but as new dentists in today's new human age, they must learn the above-mentioned abilities that seem to have nothing to do with teeth but are related to pain in addition to tooth extraction.Who made you live in this era full of temptations and opportunities! When you worry about the future, my readers, what you should worry about is your own values ​​and qualities?In the second letter, you actually wanted to ask me whether I want to study for an MBA. I think there is really something wrong with your values ​​and psychological quality.If this problem is not solved, even if you can open your dental clinic vigorously, it may fail miserably!So, I hope this letter can arm your mentality as a supplement to your lack of dental school education. In short, you must adhere to the "three don'ts" and "two do's" at the moment: don't study for a master's or doctorate (including your girlfriend); don't go abroad at the moment; besides being a dentist and opening a clinic, don't even consider foreign companies and MBA. We must resolutely work hard to obtain a business license, either alone, independently, cooperatively or jointly.If you fail to start a business after hard work, you must resolutely strive to join Arrail Dental or similar clinics and become an outstanding doctor!Do it for a while, but always remember that the upgrade to being a dentist is managing or owning your own clinic! The last point is especially important: if I become the director of my own or Arrail Dental Clinic in the future, remember to give me a free tooth extraction, if I have extra teeth to extract!In this way, my letter will not be written in vain!congratulations! Xu Xiaoping PS: Your girlfriend, who opposes you going abroad, agrees with me, so she is an outstanding girl.You don't want to harm others by going abroad.Your path should be: you open your clinic, and she acts as her agent. After a few years, if your business develops to the size of Arrail Dental, let her resign, and you become the chief business officer, and she acts as the chief executive. Official, the corporate slogan is: Let lovers all over the world have sweet kisses (not teeth intertwined and inseparable. This is a true story that happened in Hebei.).What a happy life!