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Hi, welcome to Podiatry, 
practice Mastery down here. 

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I want to talk today about a 
concept. 

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I was I was actually reading 
about this one of the books by 

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Benjamin Hardy and and the book 
was called the future self. 

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So if you're interested in any 
of these things, you could 

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Google his name, future self. 
It's a good book. 

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He's got some videos, but I like
this concept, this is a concept 

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called imperfect practice. 
Okay, imperfect practice, let me

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Give you an example. 
So, a surgical example would be 

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when we are treating. 
I so I helped a little bit with 

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residents and not too much, but 
I helped them with learning 

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their surgical skills. 
When I do surgery, it's 

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basically the resident that does
most of them and that that 

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Resident is practicing it in the
beginning. 

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They're imperfect. 
Their suturing is a perfect, how

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they're doing it? 
It's imperfect. 

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Even when I'm doing it, this was
not really perfect but it gets 

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better over time. 
Now, if the resident only reads 

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about, let's talk about a recent
procedure. 

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We did today recently was one 
where there was an IP J ulcer, 

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and I had him, do a arthroplasty
a killer arthroplasty, which is 

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done to get better range of 
motion due to hallux limit us. 

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He was doing it if he only read 
about that procedure red, red, 

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red, red, red, you know, you can
read all you want, but if you 

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do, one of them, your confidence
level goes up. 

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Its imperfect, but you're 
practicing. 

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And I think imperfect practice 
is key. 

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In this took me a while to 
understand, and I think it's 

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because of our tendency towards 
perfectionism. 

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Now, you may not be a 
perfectionist, but I, many of us

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are perfectionist because we 
want to avoid looking funny. 

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We want to avoid looking bad, we
want to avoid an all these 

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things and Ben Hardy, when he 
talks about this in his book, 

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he's talking about the 
difference between people 

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basically that our sideline 
Backs or, you know, Monday 

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morning, quarterbacks and those 
are actually in the game or in 

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the arena. 
What I want to challenge you to 

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do is to be in the arena and do 
imperfect practice, meaning 

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actually doing the work, making 
it making, getting it done, and 

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what we call shipping it, 
getting it out there, even 

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though it's imperfect. 
Now, let me give you a couple of

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examples. 
In what I what I found in my 

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mistakes. 
Okay, so first of all, I was 

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playing around with doing a 
podcast for a long time for 

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years and I've tried and I tried
different ones and they failed. 

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My first podcast was on healing.
My heel is called heal my foot 

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wound fast. 
Okay, I tried to do a podcast 

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but it didn't really work that 
well, could have been me could 

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have been the rod Market. 
I wasn't really passionate about

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it. 
Someone else wanted me to do it 

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but it was a good experience. 
I actually went and I made a 

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whole bunch of episodes. 
Thuds whole bunch of videos on 

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that area and but I actually 
made the progress that I did it.

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It was painful, it was painful 
to record the videos, it wasn't 

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comfortable because I wasn't 
good at it. 

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I didn't know but more 
importantly it was imperfect 

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like they weren't perfect. 
They weren't as good as everyone

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else. 
Is that I was I was watching but

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it was done. 
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The key is having it done even 
though it's imperfect. 

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So another area was that then as
I transitioned to this podcast, 

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I wanted to have all this time 
in the world to record this and 

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I never had it. 
And so I started to record these

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when I drove when I was driving 
and it they're imperfect but 

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they're done. 
They're done each one's done. 

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There's another topic. 
And when you're producing 

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content, we're always looking 
for this one. 

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Perfect piece of content. 
This one perfect blogger. 

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This one perfect podcast. 
Or this one, perfect video. 

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We don't get it. 
It's through the Quantity, that 

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you're producing that you're 
going to get the get the one 

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that's good because it's not 
going to be not. 

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Everyone's going to be great, 
not everyone. 

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Everyone's going to listen to, 
you know, 500 times and share 

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with their friends and things 
like that, but as you continue 

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to do the imperfect and practice
and share your philosophy, it's 

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going to get better and better 
as you do it. 

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So that's another area. 
Was that what's this podcast? 

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Let me give you another example 
in practice was with with my 

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YouTube channel and doing Videos
in the beginning, they were 

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horrible. 
If you look at my initial ones, 

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I didn't have the best camera. 
I didn't have the best 

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microphone but but they were 
done and I took the time and the

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Really, the had the courage to 
do that. 

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And so what is it in your 
practice that you've been 

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delaying because you want it to 
be perfect. 

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And this might be making your, I
don't know. 

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Simple PDF download it might be 
making a YouTube video might be,

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you know you wanted to start 
your channel just kind of start 

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it, just do it. 
Just get it out there because as

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you start that's where you mess 
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You have imperfect practice but 
then you learn the key is 

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learning. 
So then as you learn as you do 

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it more then you get better at 
it, okay? 

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Whereas many of us we just think
about these ideas and we don't 

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do it. 
We're not getting perfect. 

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We're not getting any better 
because we're not doing 

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anything. 
It's all kind of in our mind, we

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have this. 
We have these were thinking 

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thinking thinking, we're okay. 
I'm going to first So for 

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example, if you wanted to start 
an email responder like let's 

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say you want to do something 
when someone downloads a free 

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book and you want to have all 
these emails going on to your 

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patients, you have to just kind 
of do it, just kind of it's 

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going to be imperfect the first 
time. 

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It's usually not the first 
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rendition. 
For example, these these things 

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that I've been working on these 
patient presentations, I've been

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working on this for years and I 
present them every single day to

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my patients on, I'm various 
conditions and and they're 

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constantly getting better and 
better because I'm because I'm 

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doing them because I'm learning 
how to talk to the patients 

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because I'm because I'm Actually
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the arena and I am, like, trying
these out on patient. 

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So, I would recommend whatever 
you've been, like, kind of 

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delaying. 
And we can tell is if you're not

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doing imperfect practice, if 
you're delaying, okay? 

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If you're delaying, if you're 
not doing anything, and this can

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be anything, this could be 
opening up a second office, this

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could be hiring another another 
associate, this could be 

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developing training for your 
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This could be anything like 
that, that can help you. 

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So what I want to talk, so what 
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this imperfect practice. 
So Practice something. 

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And you know the last thing is 
if you're wanting to do 

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something you have to do this 
imperfect practice like daily 

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Okay, so if you want to do a 
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podcast or if you want to do 
anything, write a blog, you want

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to kind of get better at doing 
it daily or weekly like right 

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one blog a week or one video a 
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whatever that topic is that. 
That's how you do it. 

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You have to do this imperfect 
versus just thinking thinking 

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thinking and you never do it. 
Okay, let's get hope you guys 

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find that helpful. 
I have a new tool that I've been

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working on called the, it's, 
from my patients. 

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Dacians. 
I haven't quite figured out the 

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name. 
I think I'm gonna call the 

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patient treatment tool, but it's
a tool that I use. 

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This is what I practice every 
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You can start practice using it.
It's going to be imperfect. 

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The first time you showed to 
patient's, they're not going to 

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know what to do but I do have it
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You can go to Patient present a 
patient presentations.com and 

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you can get access to its put 
your email and then I would 

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thumbnail or not. 
Thumbnail. 

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I would um, Save the webpage on 
your browser so that you can get

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it other times and just show 
those presentations your 

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patients start using them 
learning how to fit it in your 

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workflow. 
If you want more help. 

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Reach out to me, Don at 
Podiatry, practice Master e.com.

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If you want to kind of learn how
to make your own, or my help, or

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if I can teach you how to do it 
if you want. 

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Okay. 
These guys have a good day.