Retrieval of hope, retrieval of experience - not just a true sportsman's determination to retrieve success from the lessons of failure, but a true humanitarian's too.

And so with this clarity attained, I would like to resolutely affirm and recommend this book to a general readership and to those interested in organisational culture, innovation and learning. Matthew Syed, who also wrote another bestseller Bounce, which I haven’t yet read, offered us totally different view of failure and success with his work.In “Antifragile”, Nassim Nicholas Taleb shows how the linear model is wrong (or, at best, misleading) in everything from cybernetics, to derivatives, to medicine, to the jet engine.

The problem was not a lack of diligence or motivation, but a system insensitive to the limitations of human psychology. It is human nature to justify our judgements after making the most obvious mistakes and to filter out contradictory evidence. Black Box Thinking is an unique book about failure as well as how to make use of mistake to bounce back from adversity. If mistakes and failure are used with an eye to context and are fused with a growth-orientated mindset, they set the stage for an endlessly powerful process: cumulative adaptation.He was shamed once early in his career, but despite of letting himself down from it he used his will power to overcome it. One particular thing I learned as well as experienced after reading this book is that testing our assumptions, seeing their flaws and learning from them.