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The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande
5.0
Imagine your life needs a simple tool that you can use every day. A tool that can bring order to chaos. Something that can help you prevent that too many “oh shit!” moments.
A checklist is that tool. Until I read this book, I was somebody who used to look down upon checklists. I was stupid enough to over-estimate the power of my memory to organize and remember information accurately. Well, I was proven wrong too many times.
That’s when I started using checklists to reduce my mental overload. Also, I realize that I should be using my brain’s processing power for more meaningful thinking than remember to-do things or stuff I should not miss.
I wouldn’t say I have become so productive that I can run for the President’s Office. But, there is clearly a difference in the way I live my everyday life. This one tool — a checklist has made that happen.
That’s a bit too much information about this book changed my life.
Now, let me talk about the book.
I stumbled upon this book through Amazon suggestions. Bless you Amazon algorithm and whoever wrote its code.
Right off the bat, I was impressed by the subject and its vitality. The Checklist Manifesto touches upon real-world instances when checklists can save lives — be it in an operation theatre or in a fighter jet pilot’s cockpit.
I am a content developer. I can vouch that it has saved me from several snafu moments.
If I summarize the book in a single line, it would be: use a checklist. But, that’s so underestimating the power of a checklist. Be informed that a checklist is not a laundry list.
It is more focused, it has intent, and it is more potent.
[a:Atul Gawande|3078|Atul Gawande|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1560377007p2/3078.jpg] presents in The Checklist Manifesto, the right way to prepare a checklist, how to follow it, and how to make it a manifesto. The books lay down how a checklist can be used by anyone and for anything — right from most trivial things like grocery shopping to counting the number of sponges after a heart operation. And, if it would help, ticking off an item as done and dusted is addictive.
I would give this book a 5 star. It would be heartless to give anything less for a book that has exposed me to a tool that has made my life easier.
Finishes off writing the review, head to the to-do checklist for the day, and ticks off ‘Write Goodreads review’ with a heart full of satisfaction.
A checklist is that tool. Until I read this book, I was somebody who used to look down upon checklists. I was stupid enough to over-estimate the power of my memory to organize and remember information accurately. Well, I was proven wrong too many times.
That’s when I started using checklists to reduce my mental overload. Also, I realize that I should be using my brain’s processing power for more meaningful thinking than remember to-do things or stuff I should not miss.
I wouldn’t say I have become so productive that I can run for the President’s Office. But, there is clearly a difference in the way I live my everyday life. This one tool — a checklist has made that happen.
That’s a bit too much information about this book changed my life.
Now, let me talk about the book.
I stumbled upon this book through Amazon suggestions. Bless you Amazon algorithm and whoever wrote its code.
Right off the bat, I was impressed by the subject and its vitality. The Checklist Manifesto touches upon real-world instances when checklists can save lives — be it in an operation theatre or in a fighter jet pilot’s cockpit.
I am a content developer. I can vouch that it has saved me from several snafu moments.
If I summarize the book in a single line, it would be: use a checklist. But, that’s so underestimating the power of a checklist. Be informed that a checklist is not a laundry list.
It is more focused, it has intent, and it is more potent.
[a:Atul Gawande|3078|Atul Gawande|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1560377007p2/3078.jpg] presents in The Checklist Manifesto, the right way to prepare a checklist, how to follow it, and how to make it a manifesto. The books lay down how a checklist can be used by anyone and for anything — right from most trivial things like grocery shopping to counting the number of sponges after a heart operation. And, if it would help, ticking off an item as done and dusted is addictive.
I would give this book a 5 star. It would be heartless to give anything less for a book that has exposed me to a tool that has made my life easier.
Finishes off writing the review, head to the to-do checklist for the day, and ticks off ‘Write Goodreads review’ with a heart full of satisfaction.