Your time starts now – life lessons from the MasterChef kitchen

As many listeners would know, I am probably as well known for my stint on reality TV cooking show MasterChef as I am for anything that I have done in dentistry. Although it’s been nearly 10 years since I was on the show, it sometimes feels like it was just yesterday. I often reflect on the experiences over that 5 month period – because the more I look back, the more I realise how much the lessons from the MasterChef kitchen have helped to influence and shape who I am today.

So to save you from having to go through the hassle of going on reality television yourself, I thought it would be worthwhile sharing some of the things that I learned on the show that I have found to be particularly valuable. In no particular order, these are my top 6 life lessons from the MasterChef kitchen:

1. Fingers are for burning - and other helpful advice from Marco Pierre White

2. Perfect is the enemy of the good

3. Don’t bite off more than you can chew

4. Any feedback is good feedback

5. Don’t cry over spilt milk

6. Mise en place

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Previous Episodes

In case you missed it, you can catch up with the previous episodes of the Dental As Anything podcast here. Or check-out the top 4 most listened to episodes:

• Episode 4: If in doubt, fill ... dogma, myths and clinical judgement in caries management.

• Episode 5: How will artificial intelligence change dentistry?

• Episode 7: Do we have too many dentists?

• Episode 11: Tongue tied and twisted