Better by Mistake The Unexpected Benefits of Being Wrong (Audible Audio Edition) Alina Tugend Elizabeth London LLC Gildan Media Books

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A New York Times columnist delivers an eye-opening big idea Embracing mistakes can make us smarter, healthier, and happier in every facet of our lives. In this persuasive audiobook, journalist Alina Tugend examines the delicate tension between what we're told - we must make mistakes in order to learn - and the reality we often get punished for making mistakes, and therefore try to avoid them or cover them up.

In Better by Mistake, Tugend shows that mistakes are everywhere, and suggests that when we acknowledge and identify them correctly, we can improve not only ourselves, but our families, our work, and the world around us. Through fascinating research, Tugend reveals how trying to avoid mistakes can affect us from the earliest stages in our lives and shape us into adults who steer clear of risks and challenges. She takes us behind the scenes into cutting-edge behavioral studies; invites us into the high-stakes world of health care and aviation, where mistakes can cost lives, and delves into the art and science behind learning how to craft a sincere apology and accepting responsibility for mistakes.

Bold and dynamic, insightful and provocative, Better by Mistake turns our cultural wisdom on its head to illustrate the downside of striving for perfection, and the rewards of acknowledging mistakes and embracing the imperfection in all of us.

Better by Mistake The Unexpected Benefits of Being Wrong (Audible Audio Edition) Alina Tugend Elizabeth London LLC Gildan Media Books

BETTER BY MISTAKE is a wise, compassionate, and thoroughly enlightening guide to human imperfection. With empathy and brilliance Tugend explores the many ways that mistakes can serve as opportunies for, rather than obstructions to, growth and success.

Tugend never simply laments mistake-making. Instead she provides insightful analysis of how mistakes happens, how they might have been avoided, and how to learn from them. For instance, she offers alternate approaches to the damaging tendency of large corporations to value profit and outward "success" above the truly valuable, if sometimes, inevitably, flawed contributions of employees. She examines catostrophic mistakes (avaiation disasters, the Iraq War, Bhopal, Chernobyl, recent financial meltdowns) and small everyday mistakes (a spouse's misplacement of his keys or a child's of his cell phone) with equal depth and insightfulness. One of the things that makes this book such a delight is Tugend's refreshing emotional honesty about her own mistakes. And she sheds light both on great historical forces and internal psychological ones -- a poignant example being her Jewish grandfather's reluctance to leave Germany in the Thirties, a feeling shared by many Jews.

BETTER BY MISTAKE is sweeping in its scope yet thoroughly accessible. It is enlightening and eminently useful to any parent, teacher, business person, medical professional, and imperfect human being (who isn't?)

Thank you, Alina Tugend, for this gift of a book. (Oh, and it also made me laugh many times, no mean feat given the subject matter!)

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Audible Audiobook
Listening Length 6 hours and 59 minutes
Program Type Audiobook
Version Unabridged
Publisher Gildan Media, LLC
Audible.com Release Date March 16, 2011
Whispersync for Voice Ready
Language English, English
ASIN B004S8E7RC

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