26. Do Checklists Make People Stupid?
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That was a really good humble brag, I have to say. I'm Angela Duckworth. I'm Steven Dubner. And you're listening to No Stupid Questions. Today on the show, do checklists make people stupid?
Do schoolwork hate parents? Go out with friends hate parents? Also, given the state of the pandemic, Is it time to give up on cities? People are decamping out to, if I might say it, the burbs.
Angela Duckworth, our question today comes from a listener named Chris Shipman. I work at a place that thrives on process, Chris writes. Thrives is in quotes, which I guess connotes irony and suggests that this workplace doesn't actually thrive. So anyway, Chris goes on, but I feel like checklists deaden critical thinking.
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