{"id":313,"date":"2012-08-03T12:46:21","date_gmt":"2012-08-03T11:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/?p=313"},"modified":"2013-02-28T20:26:45","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T19:26:45","slug":"ingenuity-quote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/ingenuity-quote\/","title":{"rendered":"Ingenuity quote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">\n\tI&#8217;m thinking I&#8217;m going to start propagating some of the quotes I find&#8230;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn <em class=\"citetitle\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/work\/2300601\" title=\"LibraryThing page for &#34;Better&#34;.\">Better<\/a><\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/gawande.com\/about\" title=\"Atul Gawande's &#34;About&#34; page.\">Atul Gawande<\/a> cites three core requirements for success in medicine:  diligence, &#8220;<span class=\"quote\">to do right<\/span>&#8221; and &#8220;<span class=\"quote\">ingenuity &#8211; thinking anew<\/span>&#8221;.  I liked what he said about ingenuity:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\n\t\tIngenuity is often misunderstood.  It is not a matter of superior intelligence but of character.  It demands more than anything a willingness to recognize failure, to not paper over the cracks, and to change.\n\t<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\n\t<em class=\"citetitle\">Better<\/em> is a book of essays about medicine &amp; related stuff.  Its <em class=\"citetitle\">Afterword<\/em> is subtitled &#8220;<span class=\"quote\">Suggestions for Becoming a Positive Deviant<\/span>&#8221; :-)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tI&#8217;m yet to read his <em class=\"citetitle\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/work\/8891944\" title=\"LibraryThing page for &#34;The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right&#34;.\">Checklist Manifesto<\/a><\/em>, but that looks interesting too.\n\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quote from Atul Gawande&#8217;s book <em>Better<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,6,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-creativity-logistics","category-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions\/341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}