The Checklist by Atul Gawande is ranked 13799th on The Greatest Books of All Time site – you have thousands of reviews of magnum opera from The GOAT and other lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/08/do-you-have-any-suggestions-how-to-make.html and YouTube channel

 

The Checklist by Atul Gawande is ranked 13799th on The Greatest Books of All Time site – you have thousands of reviews of magnum opera from The GOAT and other lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/08/do-you-have-any-suggestions-how-to-make.html and YouTube channel

 

9 out of 10

 

Blink https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/blink-power-of-thinking-without.html is the marvelous psychology classic by Malcolm Gladwell that came to mind in connection with The Checklist, mostly because they both seem to explain how you can get to fabulous outcomes in ‘the blink of an eye’, or under one minute

 

One dazzled me in The Checklist was the segment regarding airplanes, how it became crucial in the operating of these flying machines, especially as they became more complicated: once pilots had to turn on a good number of switches, see that various systems were working, it was very easy to forget once crucial operation

Ergo, the checklist came was saving lives, just like in hospitals, I wonder about John Gottman  https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-seven-principles-of-making-marriage.html who is the author of another psychology classic, The Seven Principles of Making Marriage Work that is a must read for couples

 

John Gottman is present in Blink, The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, because he was one of the proofs that we make decisions, form opinions very quickly, mistakes like the Vincennes downing of a commercial flight with hundreds of passengers on board are mentioned, but John Gottman is a special case

He was able to predict with more than ninety percent accuracy, which couples will stay together, and which will break apart, after listening to only a few minutes of conversation, he also happens to confirm the ten thousand hours of practice theory from https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-malcolm-gladwell-quicklet-bundle-by.html

 

Outliers is written by Malcolm Gladwell and I would say it is yet another classic; it demonstrates how practice, exercising for ten thousand hours over a period of ten years brings people to the top, provided other conditions are met, and we have the examples of Amadeus Mozart, Steve Jobs, The Beatles and John Gottman

Furthermore, whole cultures from the Far East have had this tremendous success based on their culture, if there is a problem you have to work on it, South Korea was as poor as any other country, I would say, some decades ago, and now it is a powerhouse, one of the richest, and that is because of hard work, education

 

Finally, I was thinking about thinking – it is an attempt to joke, but in The Economist, there was this article which argued that we are losing the habit of writing, and that is what we do when we write – and the scintillating The How of Happiness https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-how-of-happiness-by-sonja.html

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