#42 Atul Gawande: The Path to Perpetual Progress

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

Farnam Street

Business, Investing, Entrepreneurship

4.7 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2018

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

The world-renowned surgeon, writer, and researcher Atul Gawande shares powerful lessons about creating a culture of safe learning, the critical difference between a coach and a mentor, and how to ensure constant improvement in key areas of your personal and professional life.

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0:00.0	When we all have a piece of care or a piece of a problem, very often none of us can actually
0:09.8	see what the outcome is and the owner can't see the function of the system.
0:14.2	And so then you start finding things like data really matter.
0:27.0	Low and welcome.
0:28.0	I'm Shane Parish and this is another episode of the Knowledge Project, a podcast exploring
0:33.3	the ideas, methods and mental models that help you learn from the best of what other people
0:38.2	have already figured out.
0:39.9	To learn more about the show, go to fs.blog slash podcast.
0:44.8	My guest today is a tool go on day.
0:47.2	A tool is a globally renowned surgeon, writer and public health innovator.
0:52.2	He's written four New York Times bestsellers, complications, better, the checklist manifesto
0:58.1	and being mortal.
0:59.4	In his spare time, he's also a staff writer for the New Yorker.
1:02.3	A tool has dedicated his career to not only building but scaling better healthcare delivery.
1:08.0	Shortly after this interview is recorded, he was named the CEO of the healthcare initiative
1:12.7	between JP Morgan J's, Berkshire Hathaway and Amazon.com.
1:17.6	Coming on the initiative, Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos said that a degree of difficulty
1:22.5	is high and success is going to require an expert's knowledge, a beginner's mind and a long
1:28.6	term orientation, a tool embodies all three.
1:33.0	This interview almost never happened as my flight to Boston was canceled because of
1:36.3	weather more times than I can count.
1:38.2	I think you'll see how persistence was rewarded when you listen to this wide raging conversation.
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