Moment 202: Former Mafia Boss EXPOSES How The Real MAFIA KILLS People...

In Black Box Thinking, Matthew Syed argues that learning from failure drives human progress, from innovation in science and business to individual and organizational growth. Yet other areas of society—including the political, judicial, and health care systems—have yet to benefit from this process of rational learning.

As long as these institutions stigmatize failure, they create a culture of misguided exceptionalism that prevents them from improving. And if we neglect to improve our stagnating institutions, they’ll continue to take the lives of innocents—whether it’s death due to preventable medical error or wrongful conviction that leads to life in prison.

Syed explains how an organization’s culture and systems either promote or prevent learning, and he lays out several steps for learning from failure in our complex world. Any organization can change its culture and systems by embracing failure as a powerful source of learning. We’ve rounded out Syed’s ideas with advice from Tribal Leadership and The Fifth Discipline, which discuss the cultures and systems of effective businesses.

What if you could sit down with hundreds of the world's most successful people and ask them to teach you their greatest wisdom? One entrepreneur has done just that. In The Diary of a CEO, Steven Bartlett distills the business and life advice he’s gained from several years of podcast interviews, as well as his own extensive business experience. His tips are for anyone looking to make a difference in the world and live the most fulfilling, productive life possible.

In this guide, you’ll learn the five assets you need to maximize your impact on the world, how to turn stress into something exciting and energizing, and more. In our commentary, we’ll supplement Bartlett’s business advice with tips from books like Built to Last and The Lean Startup, and we’ll add to his life advice by consulting books like Outlive and Atomic Habits.

We love tales of geniuses and underdogs who rise to success through extraordinary talent and hard work—but this isn’t the whole story. In Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell argues that these stories of supposedly self-made men and women mislead us into thinking that success is an individual achievement. But in reality, every successful person had circumstances that contributed to their success.

In this guide, we’ll explain why uncontrollable factors like when you’re born, how you’re raised, and the culture you grow up in impact your success just as much as personal attributes. We’ve also included commentary that adds context to the case studies, provides nuance to the principles, and offers alternative explanations for Gladwell’s conclusions.

Just about everyone dreams of wealth, but why do so few people turn that dream into reality? Self-made millionaire Felix Dennis wrote How to Get Rich to teach you the mindset and the skills you need to start a business and build a fortune, and to explain why so many fail at doing so.

In this guide, we’ll start with Dennis’s warnings about how difficult it really is to get rich and what you might lose in the pursuit of wealth. From there, we’ll discuss how to start and run your own business. Finally, we’ll examine Dennis’s advice about how to live a healthy, happy, and satisfying life with your newfound riches.

Our commentary will compare and contrast Dennis’s ideas with those from other business guides such as Purple Cow and Start With Why. We’ll also discuss which of Dennis’s principles are backed by scientific evidence and which are currently not. Finally, we’ll provide some actionables to help you start your journey to wealth.

In Confidence Man, New York Times journalist Maggie Haberman explores the remarkable public life and career of real estate developer, reality TV star, and former President of the United States Donald Trump.

Haberman's book explores the people, experiences, and environments that shaped the singular personality that would define his presidency, focusing on his prowess as a consummate showman and salesman and his deep-seated desires for fame, attention, dominance, power, and leverage over others.

In this guide, we’ll explore:

• Trump’s career as a real estate developer and public symbol of capitalist success
• His second act as a right-wing firebrand and promoter of conspiracy theories
• His victory in the 2016 presidential election
• His presidency and attempts to overturn his defeat in the 2020 presidential election

Throughout this guide, we’ll supplement Haberman’s account with commentary from outside sources to both support her critical portrayal of Trump’s life and career, as well as to bring in perspectives that offer a more favorable view of the 45th president.

Two years before his death, the famous Samurai Miyamoto Musashi (1584-1645) retired from dueling and retreated to a cave to write and reflect upon the true Way of the warrior. The resulting book, The Book of Five Rings, contains the key principles of Musashi’s approach, covering a range of topics such as the importance of constant practice, achieving mental and physical equilibrium, and how to defeat any enemy, large or small, in combat. Throughout the work, Musashi emphasizes that the key to a warrior’s success is strategy and discipline, not brute strength or innate talent.

In this guide, we’ll explain Musashi’s core principles and explore ways in which readers can apply Musashi’s teachings to their personal and professional lives. We will also compare Musashi’s approach to that of other commentators, both historical and modern, from Sun Tzu (The Art of War) to contemporary life coaches.