Reddit mentions of Black Box Thinking: Why Most People Never Learn from Their Mistakes--But Some Do

Not sure if it's a cultural thing between the US and the UK or just society evolving now we have social media and stuff but I recently reread How to win friends and influence people and though it was massively overrated. Same goes for The 7 habbits of highly effective people.

Anyway, heres my list of books and why:-

Bounce

Excellent book in my opinion. Based on variations of the 10,000-hour rule with plenty of examples. Also touches on how the unknown habits and circumstance of someone can lead to outstanding abilities.

Zero To One

The first book that I couldn't put down until I completed it. Picked a fair few things up from it as well as a bunch of things I hope to move forward within the future with startups.

The 33 Strategies of War

Not a business book but definitely my style if you take the examples and strategies and turn them into business. This is the second book I have not been able to put down once picking it up.

The E-Myth Revisited

Although I had a decent understanding of how to allocate duties to people depending on their job role this helped me better understand it as well as the importance of doing it.

ReWork

Another book I loved, just introduced me to a bunch of new concepts with a fair few I hope to use in the future.

Black Box Thinking

Coming from and engineering background I was already used to being ok with my failures provided I was learning from them but this book is based around how different industries treat failure and how it is important to accept it and grow from it.


Millionaire Fastlane

I feel this is an excellent book for reality checks and getting people into a better mindset of what to expect and the amount of work required. It also explains a few common misconceptions of the get rich slow style methods where you may end up rich but you will be 60 years old or more.

I update this post with all of the books I have read with a rating but here are my top picks.

This is a HUGE deal. For decades the air travel industry has been held up as the gold standard for safety. There are books based on the premise that other industries should copy them. For proof to come out that they can no longer be trusted to put safety first is a big, big deal.

People will advise you differently, but what I would say is that there is no easy path to success. In my opinion, guys who are successful are defined by their relationship with failure; ie. they don't let it bother them. The most useful advice anyone could have given me when I was younger was simply: "You will be rejected. A lot. Every guy is. Don't take it personally. Push through it and keep trying". Once I adopted this mindset, things got better for me.

An interesting book about this is Black Box Thinking.