473: Dr Adam Fraser - Decision making in an uncertain world

The Savvy Dentist

Dr Adam Fraser is a peak performance researcher who helps people strive to achieve better performance in all aspects of life and business. He has worked with elite athletes and sporting teams, special forces soldiers and business leaders from some of Australia’s largest organisations.

Business and life has become more complex and sophisticated. The quality of our education needs to follow suit.

What is unique about his research is that it focuses on ‘how do people go beyond their potential’ without the collateral damage that normally comes with elite performance.

Dr.Adam Fraser has the ability to take complex things and make them simple. And in this episode of The Savvy Dentist Podcast with Dr. Jesse Green you will learn tips to some of the dilemmas that you have to encounter on a day to day basis when you're in practice.

Jesse and Adam discuss how to become better leaders as we interact with a myriad of people and how you can become more effective, happier and fulfilled.

“I believe everyone has a superpower. Some people can cook, some people can create amazing works of art, others can hug with the appropriate amount of pressure for the right length of time. My super power is the ability to make the complex, simple and engaging. I take the latest science and translate it so that people can immediately apply it to their own situation.” ~ Dr. Adam Fraser.

• [4:10] - Having a breakdown after finishing his PhD became an intersection of Adam’s life that changed his trajectory.
• [6:07] - There is danger in following your assumptions with staff and patients.
• [10:29] - Why it’s best for your patient for you to become ‘detached from the outcome’. How to make better decisions.
• [15:26] - As decision makers in our clinical world or in our business world, how do we find peace with the possibility of something occurring … versus the probability of something occurring?
• [18:04] - How to avoid your leadership ‘blindspots’.
• [23:46] - For our practice to succeed, we MUST become really good at developing people.
• [27:21] - Looking over the fence into other people's backyards, into other industries will allow you to learn and gain perspective in ways that are not possible by simply being insular and looking within the dentistry industry alone.