What Is the Point of a Checklist?

I feel like checklists are so undervalued, particularly when people feel that the decisions are simple enough to hold in their working memory. If you have an emotional response to a position, that working memory is going to be rendered useless. I mean, there is a capacity that the brain cannot take in. And putting the digits one and five next to each other is condensing a lot of perceptual data into a smaller mental unit that you can grasp immediately. That's what your posteg note is doing with the list in my mind," he says.

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