Good things don’t always catch on overnight—just look at Bruce Springsteen.
“Bruce Springsteen wouldn’t have been around today, because he had a couple of albums that didn’t sell too well,” Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough said on Thursday. That wouldn’t fly in our instant-gratification world, he said. It was actually Springsteen’s third album, “Born to Run,” that catapulted him into stardom.
Like the Boss, some ideas take a long time to catch on, said Dr. Atul Gawande, a cancer surgeon and author, on Morning Joe Thursday.
“Take hand-washing. When it was discovered in the middle 19th-century, you could cut deaths in surgery 50% if you had people use antiseptics, but it took a generation to catch on,” Gawande explained.
But there is a way to speed change up—and it’s not complicated.









