Adapt

This was an interesting read, especially for anyone looking to make a breakthrough in their career, business, or social life. The author goes through a lot of real-world examples of when failure brought about success. He goes back to previous examples a lot so don't skip around the book.

One of the enlightening parts of this book was the way Donald Rumsfeld handled the intelligence he was receiving during the Iraq war. I never knew a lot of that, and it's made me want to know more.

The author takes a lot of views on success coming out of failure, and tries to postulate which direction the success came from - or how we can optimize it so that in our own lives we can get there faster. Sometimes you just have to try something many times before you get one that works - but sometimes there are steps you can take to increase your chance of hitting a peak instead of a valley.

The author speaks of times when success was found from the top-down but the majority of the time, success comes from the bottom up.

There are a lot of examples of failure in this book, and sometimes the spectacular success that comes out of it. All you have to do is take the risk sometimes.

Good book, recommended - a little shorter than I thought it would be - 40% of the book was acknowledgements and notes, but I guess you need good citations.