If i had to pick i would also take the butcher !

Wednesday, March 07, 2018 Francisco Carneiro 0 Comments


Looking the Part
Say you had the choice between two surgeons of similar rank in the same department in some hospital. The first is highly refined in appearance; he wears silver-rimmed glasses, has a thin built, delicate hands, a measured speech, and elegant gestures. His hair is silver and well combed. He is the person you would put in a movie if you needed to impersonate a surgeon. His office prominently boasts an Ivy League diploma, both for his undergraduate and medical schools.
The second one looks like a butcher; he is overweight, with large hands, uncouth speech and an unkempt appearance. His shirt is dangling from the back. No known tailor in the East Coast of the U.S. is capable of making his shirt button at the neck. He speaks unapologetically with a strong New Yawk accent, as if he wasn’t aware of it. He even has a gold tooth showing when he opens his mouth. The absence of diploma on the wall hints at the lack of pride in his education: he perhaps went to some local college. In a movie, you would expect him to impersonate a retired bodyguard for a junior congressman, or a third-generation cook in a New Jersey cafeteria.
Now if I had to pick, I would overcome my suckerproneness and take the butcher any minute. Even more: I would seek the butcher as a third option if my choice was between two doctors who looked like doctors. Why? Simply the one who doesn’t look the part, conditional of having made a (sort of) successful career in his profession, had to have much to overcome in terms of perception. And if we are lucky enough to have people who do not look the part, it is thanks to the presence of some skin in the game, the contact with reality that filters out incompetence, as reality is blind to looks
Nassim Taleb, Skin in the Game


Note: I don’t care about what people say, I care a lot about how many times you have been doing something. My wife had a Sky accident last year and damaged her Cruciate Ligament, total rupture. When we went to the dr. Pedro Granate in Lisbon I just asked how many times he had done this procedure. I remember he said something I will do 12 in the same week. I said ok.

I don’t care about the looks I care a lot about experience. Time removes the fragile and keeps the robust. Beware of the old barber and the young doctor.


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