Black Box Thinking: Growth Mindset and the Secrets of High Performance

by Matthew Syed

But at a collective level, at the level of systemic complexity, success can only happen when we admit our mistakes, learn from them, and create a climate where it is, in a certain sense, ‘safe’ to fail.

‘Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.’

Most of all his investigations reveal that in order to learn from failure, you have to take into account not merely the data you can see, but also the data you can’t.

This is the paradox of success: it is built upon failure.