Episode · Freakonomics Radio · 2023-10-12
Books mentioned on 561. How to Succeed at Failing, Part 1: The Chain of Events
We tend to think of tragedies as a single terrible moment, rather than the result of multiple bad decisions. Can this pattern be reversed?
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Right Kind of Wrong
Right Kind of Wrong by Amy Edmondson is a book that examines the science and psychology of how people can learn from failures instead of repeating them.
Discussed“That, again, is the organizational psychologist Amy Edmondson. She recently published a book called 'Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing.' Well, she understands this is a hard sell.”
Where to get it
