Just Two Minutes: There's No Crying in Baseball

Bite-sized dental wisdom in under 2 minutes.

Over the weekend, I watched A League of Their Own with my 6-year-old daughter.

I forgot how good it was.
Not just the story. The message.

Girls playing baseball in the 1940s.
Fighting to be taken seriously. Getting booed, criticized, ignored—until they couldn’t be anymore.
And at the center of it all, Tom Hanks delivers one of the best lines in movie history:

I hit pause and told my daughter, “That. That’s the part.”

She’s six.
And right now, I’m trying to instill in her that she can do anything she puts her mind to.
Not because it’s easy.
But because it’s worth it.

And I realized—I needed that reminder too.

We forget that sometimes.
We look at someone else’s life, their success, their business, and think:
“Wow, they’ve really figured it out.”

We see the outcome.
But we never see the hours, the reps, the late nights, the tears, the therapy, the failed launches, the self-doubt, the ten times they almost quit.

Getting into dental school was hard.
Graduating was hard.
Owning a dental practice? Even harder.
Starting other businesses? Honestly, I might be insane.

It doesn’t get easier.
But we get stronger.
And that’s the point.

Hard isn’t a sign something’s wrong.
Hard is the requirement.
Most people get discouraged when things are difficult, because they think it shouldn’t be.
But if it was easy—everyone would do it.

Most of the time, the hard part isn’t the task.
It’s the staying power.
The willingness to keep going, keep showing up, keep learning, and keep getting your reps in—even when it sucks.

I want my daughter to know that.
I want me to remember that.
And I want you to know it too.

You’re doing something hard.
That’s not the problem.
That’s the signal you’re on the right path.

-Dr. Alex

P.S. If it feels hard right now, good. You’re building something most people aren’t willing to.