Starting from theassumption that physicians want to make a difference, Gawande prescribes fiveways to become a “positive deviant”—by asking unscripted questions, by resistingthe impulse to complain about how bad things are, by counting something that isinteresting to you, by writing something—a blog, a paper for a professional jour-nal, or a poem for a reading group, and finally, by looking for the opportunity tochange
This is a growth mindset that's adaptable to any profession, teaching including. It can be awful to get stuck in the teacher's room with the complaining and negativity, but this model resists that negativity and the concept that teachers are failing.