BETTER

I just finished the book, Better, and was inspired by this work by a surgeon (Atul Gawande) who is striving to find solutions to challenges in the medical field. But the book reaches beyond medicine and speaks to any of us who want to effect positive change in the work we do. In the last chapter of the book, Gawande offers "five suggestions for how one might make a worthy difference." The five suggestions are: 1) Ask an unscripted question, 2) Don't complain, 3) Count something, 4) Write something, and 5) Change. The last paragraph of the book pulls these suggestions all together in way that anyone can understand, appreciate, and possibly move forward with. It reads, "So find something new to try, something to change. Count how often you succeed and how often you fail. Write about it. Ask people what they think. See if you can keep the conversation going." It is with that spirit that I began and continue to write this blog.