Black Box Thinking: The Surprising Truth About Success

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Or maybe I just read lots of self-help books that I wasn't able to pick up lots of things from this book. And most of those mistakes are never made public, because of malpractice settlements with nondisclosure clauses.

Other terms and methods like ‘Pre-morten technique’, MVP (Minimum Viable Product, ‘lean start-up’) or RCT (Randomized Control Trial) were new to me and thus, I was able to deepen into them through the lecture. Black Box Thinking وكانت بالنسبة لي أفكاره مألوفة إلى حد كبير لكن أظنها مهمة في مواجهة شبح الفشل اللي محتمل نقابله في كل خطوة. Aside from applying measures to increase diligence and motivation, make sure to create a system and culture that considers the limitations of human psychology. They asked them to try early prototypes, observed them as they used the products, noticed what they liked and what they didn’t.At some point, it can lead us to create or innovate things, which I thought it's something I lack(creativity). Zawartość jeży włosy na głowie, niosąc grozę, ale przede wszystkim wszelkimi sposobami i narzędziami promuje największy lifehack w historii człowieka. However, half of the hospitals were reporting fewer than 5 cases of injury per 10,000 hospital visits. It was good that the author did some further emphasis as why we really have to embrace failures and how to learn from it 100% of the time to minimize redundant failures along the way. Nowadays Matthew is a multi-award-winning journalist for The Times, a highly-acclaimed speaker, and a regular contributor to radio and television.

It forces you to think deeply about the decisions you have made personally and professionally – and more importantly, the failures as a result of those decisions. Blame is, in many respects, a subversion of the narrative fallacy: an oversimplification driven by biases in the human brain. As I read this book, I also learned something that is related to our thinking biases, namely "cognitive bias" which affects the way we interpret failures which I haven't realized till then since we recreate or reframe the way we view failures which I will admit to myself as well.Its main thrust concerns the articulation of two different cultures in dealing with this complexity. Sayed tells horrifying stories of the US justice system and the extent of mistrials and refusal to admit mistakes which effectively destroys one of the most precious learning experiences. This book is all about, as the sub-title suggests, “Why Most People Never Learn from Their Mistakes—But Some Do. It is not just about sport, but has powerful implications for business and politics, as well as for parents and students. The way we have been conditioned and taught to view failure is wrong and, in Syed’s view, we should embrace failure as an opportunity to improve versus using failure to blame someone.

For example, if cases were assessed by a judge just after he had eaten breakfast, the prisoner had a 65 percent chance of getting parole. The justice systems, systems engineering, aviation, healthcare and the personal approaches to learning of prominent sportspeople and software start-ups are drawn on making this book engaging for a general readership. Black box thinking is a mental model that helps to reframe failure and design systems that support continuous improvement. But have a mindset of applying the lessons you learnt from failing to avoid the same failures again.Sir David Brailsford, who started the dominance of British cycling after he became a general manager of his country’s team, became an exemplar of how marginal gain can have big impact in high performance rather than sole big defining change. They make sure that the cyclists sleep on the same mattress each night to deliver a marginal gain in sleep quality; that the rooms are vacuumed before they arrive at each new hotel, to deliver a marginal gain in reduced infection; that the clothes are washed with skin-friendly detergent, a marginal gain in comfort.