Complexity Digest 2011.23 - 19.04

2011/11/25

Editor-in-Chief: Carlos Gershenson
Founding Editor: Gottfried Mayer

Brilliant Mistakes: Finding Success on the Far Side of Failure, Wharton Digital Press Bookmark and Share

Summary:
If you have ever flown in an airplane, used electricity from a nuclear power plant, or taken an antibiotic, you have benefited from a brilliant mistake. Each of these life-changing innovations was the result of many missteps and an occasional brilliant insight that turned a mistake into a surprising portal of discovery. This book shares critical insights on the surprising benefits of making well-chosen mistakes. It explores why minimizing mistakes may be the greatest mistake of all, situations when mistakes are most beneficial and the counter-intuitive idea that we should deliberately permit errors at times. (...)