Brilliant and fascinating. So many important ideas told in such a compelling way.

Amazingly clear and readable discussion of how to learn and progress in life and work and what gets in the way. Definitely a must-read.

The author makes some well supported key arguments about valuing failing and learning from failures. The book is filled with pertinent examples and narrated in a way to keep us hooked until the end. While the premise is rather common sense, the author explains well why rational and smart people fall into the blame and cognitive dissonance traps which prevent seeing failure as opportunity.

A well written book. It covers a lot of ground and good for someone who hasn't read in this area. For those well read in this area it will be less interesting as much of the content and research quoted has been covered elsewhere.

Really enjoyed reading this book. I think it definitely makes you think about the problems in this world and how to solve it, well in a way. It doesn't necessarily mean something has to be revolutionary but needs to be thought out and also figured out from failure. Definitely a good read.

I really enjoyed this one and think there are some applicable lessons to my life and work. Marginal gains and more rigorous testing of assumptions jump out as the most obvious. I especially think the latter is perfect for my workplace. Now I need to figure out how to put that in action.

The major downside of the book was that after spending a few days at a hospital last month, all the anecdotes about how hospitals could improve made me squirm a bit.

An eye opening read on the benefits of failure in order to learn and improve, told alongside some shocking and sometimes infuriating real life incidents. An absolute must read for anyone.

Was expecting more from the book. I felt it was boring and I’m not sure I learned anything

I don't rate non-fiction so here is a quick review!

The overall concept of this was really interesting, I especially enjoyed the focus on how mistakes are reported and acted upon to inform future events! The fact that in so many industries mistakes are hidden for fear of getting in trouble is terrifying, and I feel I also learnt from a personal development perspective that making mistakes and learning from them isn't a bad thing, but is in fact incredibly important and the quickest and easiest way to learn!

Overall I would recommend this, but I did feel that the last 100 pages or so got very repetitive and felt a little redundant! The same case studies were used repeatedly and not much extra value was being drawn from them at the end!