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Black Box Thinking: Why Some People Never Learn from Their Mistakes - But Some Do by Matthew Syed
yaltidoka24's review against another edition
2.0
Blinks:
1. People are afraid of failure because it compromises their self-esteem.
2. Failure certainly hurts, but it's a necessary precursor to improvement.
3. If you can't admit your mistakes, then you'll never progress.
4. To learn and develop, you have to subject your theories to failure.
5. Failures inspire great solutions and help fine-tune a complicated processes.
6. Reaching your full potential requires embracing failure.
Overall message: embrace your mistakes and learn from them.
Recommendation: A young adult, student, or professional may learn from this, but not a more experienced person.
1. People are afraid of failure because it compromises their self-esteem.
2. Failure certainly hurts, but it's a necessary precursor to improvement.
3. If you can't admit your mistakes, then you'll never progress.
4. To learn and develop, you have to subject your theories to failure.
5. Failures inspire great solutions and help fine-tune a complicated processes.
6. Reaching your full potential requires embracing failure.
Overall message: embrace your mistakes and learn from them.
Recommendation: A young adult, student, or professional may learn from this, but not a more experienced person.
melissakm's review against another edition
5.0
Brilliant and fascinating. So many important ideas told in such a compelling way.
mago1886's review against another edition
challenging
hopeful
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
expom1993's review against another edition
5.0
Amazingly clear and readable discussion of how to learn and progress in life and work and what gets in the way. Definitely a must-read.
nathalieme's review against another edition
4.0
The author makes some well supported key arguments about valuing failing and learning from failures. The book is filled with pertinent examples and narrated in a way to keep us hooked until the end. While the premise is rather common sense, the author explains well why rational and smart people fall into the blame and cognitive dissonance traps which prevent seeing failure as opportunity.
francisjshaw's review against another edition
4.0
A well written book. It covers a lot of ground and good for someone who hasn't read in this area. For those well read in this area it will be less interesting as much of the content and research quoted has been covered elsewhere.
tmdguru500's review against another edition
5.0
Really enjoyed reading this book. I think it definitely makes you think about the problems in this world and how to solve it, well in a way. It doesn't necessarily mean something has to be revolutionary but needs to be thought out and also figured out from failure. Definitely a good read.
davefoolery's review against another edition
4.0
I really enjoyed this one and think there are some applicable lessons to my life and work. Marginal gains and more rigorous testing of assumptions jump out as the most obvious. I especially think the latter is perfect for my workplace. Now I need to figure out how to put that in action.
The major downside of the book was that after spending a few days at a hospital last month, all the anecdotes about how hospitals could improve made me squirm a bit.
The major downside of the book was that after spending a few days at a hospital last month, all the anecdotes about how hospitals could improve made me squirm a bit.
itshobbes's review against another edition
5.0
An eye opening read on the benefits of failure in order to learn and improve, told alongside some shocking and sometimes infuriating real life incidents. An absolute must read for anyone.