Book Club Event on 09/04/2021: The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success by Megan McArdle

[Eugene]

This book was suggested by Emily

Event is on September 4th, 2021. 4pm EST.
Follow Meetup link to online event: https://www.meetup.com/Inquiry-Non-Fi...

Pages to read: 246
ISBN: 9780670026142 (Originally listed edition)
ISBN: 9780698151499 (Edition I am Using)

While reading the book, consider the below questions:
•What is the raison d’etre of the book? For what purpose did the author write the book?
•What does it mean to fail?
•How to fail?
•How to identify mistakes?
•What can failure teach?
•What does it mean to take risks?
•Who or what is to blame for the failure?
•How can schools teach failure?
•How does success come about?
•What are safety nets? What impact do the safety nets have?
•Is it possible to build a fail-safe world?
•How does science make progress?
•What is the difference between having a growth mindset and a fixed mindset?
•What can success teach?
•How does culture shape failure?
•How should punishment be applied?
•How should forgiveness be applied?
•What are the limits to experimentations?
•Why did the kindergartners build taller architecture than the engineers?
•What is the technocratic fallacy?
•Does socioeconomic status matter when failing?
•How do societies deal with a variable food supply?
•What do foragers value? What do farmers value? Why does each value what they value? Why the difference?
•What happened between the car companies and the unions in the 1970?
•How do employee and employer relationships differ between countries?
•What is the inattentional blindness?
•How does playing games help?

Your questions are important and will take priority. If you have questions about the book's content or related ideas, either let me know what your questions are or raise them during the discussion.

My Review of the Book:
https://inquiryformanantilibrary.blog...

Upcoming event:
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Summary from Goodreads:
For readers of Drive, Outliers, and Daring Greatly, a counterintuitive, paradigm-shifting new take on what makes people and companies succeed

Most new products fail. So do most small businesses. And most of us, if we are honest, have experienced a major setback in our personal or professional lives. So what determines who will bounce back and follow up with a home run? If you want to succeed in business and in life, Megan McArdle argues in this hugely thought-provoking book, you have to learn how to harness the power of failure.

McArdle has been one of our most popular business bloggers for more than a decade, covering the rise and fall of some the world’s top companies and challenging us to think differently about how we live, learn, and work. Drawing on cutting-edge research in science, psychology, economics, and business, and taking insights from turnaround experts, emergency room doctors, venture capitalists, child psychologists, bankruptcy judges, and mountaineers, McArdle argues that America is unique in its willingness to let people and companies fail, but also in its determination to let them pick up after the fall. Failure is how people and businesses learn. So how do you reinvent yourself when you are down?

Dynamic and punchy, McArdle teaches us how to recognize mistakes early to channel setbacks into future success. The Up Side of Down marks the emergence of an author with her thumb on the pulse whose book just might change the way you lead your life.