How to Break the Hidden Limits of Expertise
Presenter:
Atul Gawande
Time:
8:18
Summary
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The purpose of a coach is to not be the one to set the goals, but instead to say, "Here are the kinds of goals we can work our way through.
Transcript
Hi, I'm Atul Gawande. I am a surgeon, a public health leader and researcher, and a writer. I'm the author of four New York Times bestsellers: Complications, Better, The Checklist Manifesto, and Being Mortal. One of the things that's interesting to me is how different professions approach people improving their skills over time. The common approach in a field like medicine is what I call the pedagogical approach.
You are going to go to school forever. You're going to get your 10,000 hours of practice in internship and residency in some apprenticeship or training in one way or the other, and then you're going to be set loose on the world.