On this week's podcast, I'm interviewing Captain Cosmetic, my good friend Larry Blevins, CEO and director of Village

Institute of Plastic Surgery, all the way from Florida.

And I'm so excited to have you here.

He's going to give us, I'm going to pick his brain about being 20 years in practice and all the

things you guys need to know, the hurdles, pitfalls, the mistakes we've made.

True, the mistakes we've made.

Cheers to that.

I think all you learn is from the mistakes you make.

That's right. All right, Larry, it's the biggest mistake you've made in your practice.

First of all, I want to say mistakes are so important because you can only grow when you make

mistakes. I think 90% of the things we learn, you know, we can get all this great information

and people give it. There was this website in the military and it was called Army Lessons Learned.

And if you ever got in trouble for something like if you got an article 15 or you got a letter of reprimand,

you had to write an explanation of why you made that choice, where you felt like it went wrong,

and what would you do different?

Wow.

And I found that I love to watch those and read those because a lot of times when you

would read those, you would think, oh, I would have made that same decision.

That could have ended this away.

So then reading those and kind of vicariously living through someone else's mistakes,

we think we could do better.

But then when we get out, we just make the same mistakes.

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