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The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right (Metropolitan Books, 2010; copyright 2009)

Atul Gawande · c. 2009

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  1. We are not built for discipline.
  2. Knowledge has both saved us and burdened us.
  3. Good checklists, on the other hand, are precise.
  4. We are by nature flawed and inconstant creatures.
  5. Discipline is hard — harder than trustworthiness and skill and perhaps even than selflessness.
  6. science has filled in enough knowledge to make ineptitude as much our struggle as ignorance.

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