Why you should have your own black box | Matthew Syed | TEDxLondonBusinessSchool

He makes the case for acknowledging failure and confronting our mistakes, a notion he refers to as “Black Box Thinking”.

Matthew Syed was the British table tennis number one for almost a decade, three-time Commonwealth Champion, and twice competed for Great Britain in the Olympic Games (in Barcelona in 1992 and Sydney in 2000). A columnist for The Times, he has also gone on to publish numerous bestselling books; Bounce, published in April 2010, has been described as “one of the most intelligent and thought-provoking books about sport ever written”, and Black Box Thinking, published in 2015, which has been globally acknowledged and translated into multiple languages.

[volkankanakan]

He's got great presentational skills - constantly moving to keep people awake and never used "erm..."

[afrozinamdar]

And all these years I thought I made a heap of mistakes in the past and that's why I am a failure. Thank you Matthew!

[jackhoward]

The world really needs more people as wise as this clever, clever man. This mind set needs to be encouraged, I see him as a true role model.

[jackperry]

This guys is brilliant. One of the best perspectives to change I’ve heard in a while. More people need to listen to this man and take his pov on! Really really smart guy, wise beyond his years.

Reminds me of the phrase that is along the lines of “a wise man plants seed for a tree he will never see grow”

[molly]

When something goes wrong, litigation should be directed towards the system and everyone answerable. Thank you Mr Sayed Matthew: A growth mindset culture.

[LukePC]

I can truly class this man as a hero by dictionary definition. So talented, unambiguous and also possesses a higher understanding of the world that most are either incapable of tapping into or are ignorant to. Syed for Prime Minister

[TheRealScurred]

Bounce is amazing. Can't wait to read Black Box Thinking this week

[wehiird]

Might be the best ending to a talk I've seen

[zeppelinqaz]

One of the most talented people in this country. A great person.

[gene]

When something goes wrong in aviation, the pilot rarely takes all the blame. The same cannot be said in healthcare, in which litigation is often directed at individual clinicians instead of healthcare systems or organizations as a whole. Blame culture won’t dissapear unless this changes.

[ChrisJones-tqgv]

Powerful yet simple ideas- Syed is unique for me in his clarity of thought, backed up with real word exemplar.

[startupbell]

Amazing thoughts in this presentation. Thoughts that are echoed in Carol Dweck's and Ken Robinson's work. The hard part will be to put it into practice. Which government is going to change their education system first? Or their health care system? The potential gains are enormous.

[LD-wfyt]

We get exposed to, even bombarded with, many new concepts which often feel too impractical, too abstract or too broad to do something about them. So we put them into buzzwords or corporate jargon category. In this talk, Matthew Syed brings more meaning and provides real-life forces to explain the idea of Growth (aviation) and Fixed (healthcare) mindsets. We could leverage Matthew's message and use it as an insight to explain the essence of Diversity & Inclusion ideals: they are also about Growth mindset. However, I would like to contribute another important insight to build on our learning mindset in the context of Aviation vs Healthcare cultures. If we dig a bit deeper, Healthcare does not seem to be in a position to criticise the fact that just over 100 years ago the world had to deal with only several major diseases compared to 19, 000 nowdays. What is really going on?

[bencornish]

Great talk...Bounce one of my favourite books.

[PatrickGartner-odxs]

underrated talk, only 157k views. "They didn't want to look, despite the telescope ... " ;)

[luxr]

Public sector workers have the fixed mindset, painfully painful probably describes it best. They are so fixated on the way its always been and wanting to claim credit for everything so you have a feeding frenzy in place of progression. It's like comparing the private sector to the public sector. The private sector cannot afford to be idle and less competitive. The public sector is inherently lazy not because they are but because they can be.

[heshamelansari]

Accumulated improvement beats talent eventually.

[edythemckee]

This title does not give this talk justice. It should have "a better mindset" or the like. Result is it is being ignored.

[touristtam]

Talking about ergonomic Tesla is at the other end of the spectrum.

[charleswillcock]

The example of how many patients die in America every year - it is amazing that is tolerated. In the UK chances are that number is a similar proportion. USA pop. 328 million 400.000 avoidable deaths. UK 66 million that would equate to 70, 000 to 80, 000 per year. 1500 per week. Even if you are argue these numbers are too high. In normal times we would not tolerate a plane crashing every week with 200 people on board.

if the UK adopted the learning model from the hospital highlighted - that would save a small fortune and massively improve patient care. What is disappointing this concept is not really a secret but it is consistently ignored.