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