Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure
A Psychology, Economics, Business book. Companies pay amazing amounts of money to get answers from consultants with overdeveloped confidence in their own intuition,...
Author Q&A with Tim Harford So are you an economic missionary, or is this just something that you love to do? It began as something that I love to do--and I think I am now starting to get a sense of it being a mission. People can use economics and they can use statistics and numbers to get at the truth and there is a real appetite for doing so. This is such a BBC thing to say--there’s almost a public service mission to be fulfilled in educating people about economics. When I wrote The Undercover Economist, it was all about my pure enthusiasm for the subject; the book is full of stuff I wanted to say and that is always the thing with the books: they are always such fun to write. Do you think that people these days are generally more economically literate? People are now aware of economics for various...
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In this great book, Tim Harford, argues that failure is inevitable and that we should admit it and embrace trial and error. Our world is impossibly complex. None of us, not even the brightest and best educated, can be sure to come up with the best solution to the problem we face. Just witness Philip Tetlocks study of expert predictions.... I was expecting a different kind of book. The author opens with a description of a contestant from the game-show "Deal or No Deal". The contestant melts down and makes the worst possible decisions once he had lost the big prize. Tim Harford wrote that he would explain the nature of that poor decision making. I was expecting more of... brilliant read! really enjoyed how the author weaved the concepts of failure and success with evolutionary concepts
