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Name: Black Box Thinking
Rating: 3.9 (134 reviews)
Author: Matthew Syed

Matthew Syed

The Surprising Truth About Success (And Why Some People Never Learn from Mistakes)

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What’s in it for me? Learn how to extract the positive from failure.

Failure. Whether you failed to pass an exam, failed to woo someone you found attractive or failed to whip up a great meal for your friends, failure is failure. And it’s one of the most annoying and scary things out there.

But maybe failure isn’t just annoying and scary and counterproductive. Maybe it’s also the opposite of those things. These blinks show how failure can be used to your advantage – how it’s in fact key to progress and success.

In these blinks, you’ll discover

why prosecuting innocent people isn’t a rare event;
how the invention of the ATM sprang from failure; and
how good you are at learning from your mistakes.

People are afraid of failure because it compromises their self-esteem.

Children have a hard time admitting their mistakes. It’s practically automatic for them to deny doing things like drawing all over the walls, even when the evidence – the marker in their hand and the ink on their fingers – is indisputable. But are we that much different when we’re all grown up?

Not really. In general, people are highly averse to admitting that they’ve made a mistake. In fact, we hate admitting that we’ve made an error more than we hate making mistakes themselves!

A look at the criminal justice system makes this very clear.

In 1984, the advent of DNA testing enabled prosecutors to prove guilt beyond doubt. You’d think that this fool-proof technology would work the other way around, too – helping wrongfully convicted people prove their innocence. Unfortunately, it usually didn’t work that way. In most cases law enforcement simply wouldn’t admit that they’d made a mistake.

Take the case of Juan Rivera, a 19-year-old with a history of mental illness. In 1992, he was accused of raping and murdering an eleven-year-old girl, and sentenced to life in prison. Thirteen years later, a DNA test proved Juan’s innocence. But prosecutors wouldn’t budge, and it took another six years for his release.

So why is it so hard to admit mistakes? Well, admitting error compromises our self-esteem, especially when it’s about something important.

Those prosecutors from the Rivera case weren’t necessarily bad people. They may have simply wanted to cover up their mistakes.

Perhaps the hardest part of admitting mistakes is the first part – admitting to yourself that you’ve made one. This is especially true when the mistake is a big one, like sending an innocent person to spend 13 years in prison. Admitting such a horrible mistake instantly compromises your self-esteem, making it difficult to even live with yourself?

So, in all likelihood, the prosecutors truly believed that Rivera was guilty, and that there was some explanation for the negative DNA test that didn’t rule out guilt.

Failure certainly hurts, but it’s a necessary precursor to improvement.

As you saw in the previous blink (and no doubt learned from some experience in your own life), it’s extremely difficult to admit mistakes. But failing face and understand failure has consequences: it hinders our ability to succeed.

Failure is more than personal shame; rather, it’s an indication that something is wrong. And when you know that something is wrong – be it your personal attitude or the way a company is organized – then you have an opportunity to fix it.

If you can’t admit your mistakes, then you’ll never progress.

Imagine a world in which no one admitted to or learned from their failures. In such a world, mistakes would be repeated again and again, with drastic consequences.

It’s often obvious whether someone succeeded or failed: a patient either lives or dies, a plane either lands or crashes. The subtlety lies in the explanation: was this failure due to a mistake, or not?

To learn and develop, you have to subject your theories to failure.

We tend to see the world as simple, and easily understandable. As a result, we rarely feel the need to test our theories. But this deprives us of the opportunity to see if these theories are true or false!

The world is big and scary, so it makes sense that we’d look for simple explanations wherever we can find them. Think back to the practice of bloodletting: medieval doctors thought that patients who died were simply doomed from the beginning. Such patients were so far gone that even bloodletting couldn’t save them.

Failure inspires great solutions and helps fine-tune a complicated processes.

Failure can be annoying. But it can also inspire you to see problems in a different light. And with this new perspective comes new solutions.

Often, great ideas arise when there’s a specific problem – that is, when something has failed. The failure itself is what drives you to find a solution, and in this way, failure can function as a driver of progress.

Reaching your full potential requires embracing failure.

If you want to take full advantage of failure, it’s not enough to understand intellectually that failure is helpful. You also need to build a positive relationship with it.

If you can’t handle failure – if you run from it instead – then you’ll end up failing more than is necessary.

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Worum geht es in Black Box Thinking?

Black Box Thinking (2015) explores the ways in which failure, despite all the shame and pain associated with it, is actually one of our greatest assets. Full of practical tips on how to develop a healthy, productive relationship to failure, Black Box Thinking will put you on the path to success.

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It is only when we have staked our ego that our mistakes of judgement become threatening.

—Matthew Syed

Wer Black Box Thinking lesen sollte

Psychology enthusiasts
Anyone who is sick of making the same mistakes
People who want to turn their failures into successes

Über den Autor

Matthew Syed is a British journalist and Oxford alumnus, as well as a three-time Men’s Singles Champion at the Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships. He is also the author of Bounce.

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