Book Summary

• Learning from failure should be hardwired in the systems
• Mistake should not be stigmatized but regarded as learning opportunities.
• Creating culture that enable organization to learn from errors rather than being threatened by them.
• Paradox of success it is built upon failure.
• Knowledge does not progress merely by gathering confirmatory data but looking for contradictory data
• Failure is inevitable in complex world , This is precisely why learning from mistake is so imperative.
• If we edit our failure and reframe our mistakes, we are effectively destroying one of the most precious learning opportunities that exist
• Marginal Gain is to break down big goals in small parts and than improve on each one of them.
• Good way of testing ideas is to realize that you will often be wrong but that is not a bad things , it leads to progress.
• Insight often requires taking a step back and seeing the big picture.
• Iteration is an indispensable aspects of the creative process
• We should not insulate ourselves from failure rather we should engage with it.
• We learn not just by being correct , but also by being wrong.
• Learning can only happen through experimenting and experience.
• Create a culture based on openness and honesty rather than defensiveness and back-covering.
• Instant blame often leads to what has been called a ‘circular firing’ that is where everyone is blaming everyone else.
• Holding people accountable and blaming people are two different things.
• Increasing punishment not reduce mistakes it reduces openness.
• “If you make an honest mistake we will not penalize you”
• Success is combination of Talent and Practice.
• Intelligence is dynamic , it is something that can grow expand and Improve.
• Idea that success in Instant phenomena destroy resilience.
• We progress fastest when we face up to failure and learn from it.
• Can a new approach of success comes by flipping the way we things of failure.