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#42 Atul Gawande: The Path to Perpetual Progress

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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Creating a Space for Surgery

Surgeons are very confident people. You can't go into an operating room and do an operation without, you know, a kind of slightly absurd sense of confidence in yourself. There's some shame to not being able to admit that you have something that you ou no. The opposite is the toxic organization, where admitting failure just opens you up to attack and removal.

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