Episode · Freakonomics Radio · 2023-10-12

Books mentioned on 561. How to Succeed at Failing, Part 1: The Chain of Events

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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

  1. Right Kind of Wrong

    Amy Edmondson · at 10:21

    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