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#42 Atul Gawande: The Path to Perpetual Progress

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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How Did the Breakthrough Drug Come About?

I want to go back to something you said about the new england journal, and how every week there's something coming out that's new and novel. And yet we're not attracted to the boring, more fundamental things that make a quantify ably make a larger difference. Why do you think that is? Well, so ave called it that we've been fantastic at break through innovation, and we've had a, no, no real understanding of follow through innovation. So in many ways, how did the breakthrough happen, the breakthrough drug was found because you really began under understand the interconnected, complex systems at a cellular level that govern a cancer. You can get phenomenally better results doing

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