2-1a0c1 'Failure comes from a failure to imagine failure'

“You must expect failure after failure after failure before you succeed.” – Edwin Land

“Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies. Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly” – JFK

“策に三策あるべし—A案・B案・C案・撤退” – 北尾吉孝 (SBI)

You need to know what you are aiming for, but also what would constitute as failures. You need to define errors, otherwise you wouldn’t correct them.

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• 2-1a0c1a ‘Influence of stress’ - ‘In the thick of battle, you will not rise to the level of your expectations, but fall to the level of your training’
• 2-1a0c2 Failing is inevitable, but do not fail epistemologically

Related:

• 1-2 We are fallible

• 1-2f1a Error-correction is the beginning of infinity. All jumps to universality occur in digital systems.

• 4-1c Great negotiators actively try to reveal hidden assumptions, that is, they look for surprises. They are more than just being ready for them.

• 5-1b1b1a1.1 The more anomalies you’ve seen, the more easily you’ll detect new ones. Life should become more and more surprising as you grow older. It compounds.

• 5-2c2b0 The truer and deeper the idea is, the more likely it will survive criticism, change in society, and withstand unpredictable consequences brought about by itself

• 5-2c2b1 Focus on the fundamentals, on the deeper ideas closer to abstract knowledge, on what matters, and build yourself (including technology) around it

• 5-1b1 Invest in preparedness. Be redundant and resourceful in every aspect. Minimize opportunity cost to achieve great things.

• 5-1b2.3 Don’t be the turkey—the Black Swan might be a Grey Swan depending on your perspective

• 5-1b4 Be prepared to deal with short-term nonsenses, but know what you’re focused on in the long-run and stay optimistic

• 6-3d Be very specific about problems and divide a project clear cut so it doesn’t become bleak, like shared common room.

• 9-2a3b0 Imagine what happens when it goes wrong—think first of the downside instead of the upside

• 5-1b1a2c0 No theory can exhaust reality

• RUL3 - The transparency principle - make your decision-making process as visible and open to scrutiny as possible