16 September, 2016

Atul Gawande: for the first time in human history, ineptitude is a bigger problem than ignorance - Vox

Atul Gawande: for the first time in human history, ineptitude is a bigger problem than ignorance - Vox: "They point out that there are two key reasons people fail at whatever it is they set out to do. One reason is because of ignorance. We just don’t know all the laws that apply to the physical universe, and we don’t have a complete staid description of the universe that those laws apply to, and therefore we have research and discovery.



 The second reason we fail is what they called ineptitude. Meaning, the knowledge exists but an individual or group of individuals fails to apply that knowledge correctly. What’s really interesting to me about living in our time and in our generation is that that is a remarkable change of living now: that ineptitude is as much or a bigger force in our lives than ignorance."



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