Another famous British athlete, Matthew Said, has been at the top of the British table tennis world for nearly a decade, and has experienced countless failures in his athletic career.
Matthew Sa?d analyzed and summarized a large number of cases, and wrote the book "Black Box Thinking: How We Make Mistakes More Rationally", which talks about the role of "Black Box Thinking" and how to apply "Black Box Thinking" to our
Athletes are the only ones who have ever been able to make a mistake in their lives.
Athletes are probably the most common type of people to experience failure, because they have to go through countless competitions. Failure is also a constant companion for all of us as human beings.
However, there are big and small failures, the small ones may be just throwing the waste paper into the paper basket when not accurately thrown into this kind of insignificant things, but the big ones may be life-threatening, and even more than one person's life.
That's why Black Box Thinking begins by focusing its investigation and study of the success-failure correlation on the medical and aviation industries, which are among the most closely related to life safety in the world today
On a rainy morning in 2005, 37-year-old Elaine had to undergo a sinus operation. Her doctor reassured her that it was just a routine procedure and that there was no danger.
But it was an operation that cost her her life, her husband and her children. During the surgery, Elaine's jaw muscles were too tight for the surgeon to put in a mask.
After taking a series of measures, the doctors were still unable to place a catheter into Elaine's airway, which ultimately led to her death after 13 days in a coma due to hypoxic brain damage.
The tragedy could have been avoided. While the doctors were trying to place an airway, a nurse thought of cutting the trachea open, and she had the tools ready, but hesitated because of her lack of seniority and potential liability.
The doctor's attention and thinking were too limited to consider the nurse's suggestion, and the opportunity was missed.
I believe it will make many people feel sorry and pain, originally so simple a surgery, but because the doctor's wrong operation and the nurse's dare not voice and caused an irreparable tragedy.
In fact, there are many cases of such medical malpractice every year, and when the consequences of failure and human life are involved, there is a moral urgency to learn from the failure. Unfortunately, however, not all lives lost to medical malpractice are exchanged for deep reflection.
Let's look at the airline industry, which is also closely tied to life safety. Usually an airplane is equipped with two black boxes, which are used to record cockpit conversations and voices, as well as operating commands sent to the electronic system and the altitude, speed, heading, climb rate, fuel consumption, etc. of the flight within a certain period of time before the airplane stops working or crashes, in addition to the working condition of the airplane system and engine operating parameters and other flight parameters will be recorded.
Once an accident occurs, these data will become the most important and direct basis for analyzing the cause of the accident, helping to correct the operating procedures and avoid repeating the same mistakes. The term "black box thinking" is also derived from the electronic recording devices on airplanes.
The black box mentality refers to a willingness and determination to investigate and learn from the lessons that can often be learned after a failure.
In healthcare, due to the complexity of disease, limited resources, and time constraints, healthcare professionals are often unable to fully weigh the pros and cons of various treatment options, resulting in accidents.
But beyond these factors, there are underlying factors. That is, many errors are not reported and evaluated in a timely manner after they occur, resulting in similar errors occurring again and again.
This is an important difference between the steps taken by healthcare and aviation in the aftermath of an accident - a different attitude toward failure. In contrast to flight crews, many healthcare professionals tend to avoid responsibility when faced with an accident.
It's not just paramedics; many people choose to deny failure when confronted with it. For example, some judges, police officers, and jurors may even consider "suspects" guilty even after DNA results prove their innocence.
These people will create new excuses, defenses, and explanations, or even ignore the evidence altogether, even if it is compelling enough. For it is not the persuasiveness of the evidence that is the cause of the problem, but the difficulty of the heart that must be overcome to admit error.
Black Box Thinking is a book that tells readers to redefine their relationship to failure, whether as individuals, organizations, or society as a whole.
To recognize that it is indeed a failure, to change this perception, is not an easy thing, because people are accustomed to refusing to face the failure or shirk the responsibility, which often puts itself into a kind of thinking in the "closed loop" to go, for the wrong information, we tend to misinterpreted or ignored, can not get effective information feedback, will not be able to take action. The first thing you need to do is to get the information back, and then you can't take the appropriate improvement measures.
To learn from failure, we need to consider all the information in a comprehensive way, and at the same time, we need to have careful thinking and firm beliefs. When failure occurs, it is important to analyze and take action, and to adopt newer and better methods through a realistic approach to learning in order to make progress.
The author cites the use of "black box thinking" in entrepreneurship, thinking and working. In the process of entrepreneurship, through continuous trial and error and improvement, discover the core needs and highlights of the product, and strive for excellence in order to be competitive enough.
When considering a problem, it is important to adopt a randomized control method to exclude the influence of uncertainty and interpret the real feedback information in order to take the right action. Black box thinking also plays a huge role in the workplace, where the authors introduce the concept of "marginal gain". This is the decomposition of the task, for individual tasks can be optimized for each detail, each breakthrough, so that the whole to achieve the best.
In the book "Black Box Thinking", the author lists a large number of detailed experiments, data and cases, so that readers can better recognize and avoid thinking traps, and then change their own attitudes towards failure, and learn ways to succeed from failure.
Courage to face failure, no longer take failure as a disgrace, but as a trial closer to success.
Try to convert our mode of thinking in the face of failure, in front of the "black box" is not Pandora's Box, which is not loaded with disaster or the devil, do not dare to recognize the existence of it, it is only the success of the road to stumble on the stone.
Efforts to recognize its edges and look, find the reasons for tripping, and will step on it, the road to success will go more solid.
When we are really willing to face their own failure, and learn from the failure to learn from the experience and improve the behavior and action, will be able to hinder the success of the stumbling blocks one by one into a stepping stone, so that step by step towards success. After all, there is nothing to stop us.