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80 of Success is Avoiding Stupidity

History repeats itself. Unfortunately, so does bad decision-making. There are many references to the fact that we make 35,000 decisions per day, of which about seventy are real decisions that are made consciously, and only a few big decisions that can affect the trajectory of your life or career. Most books that include decision-making are focused on how-to-advice and provide recipes for making better decisions. These books are intended to help people select a career and advance in a career and how to manage their way to the C-suite. There are many titles that tell you how to get a better job, how to be a better manager, or how to improve your career and life by improving your habits.This is not one of those books.

The Seven Deadly Stupidities: Using Other Peoples Failures to Make Better Decisions takes a different approach by illustrating negative events that could have been avoided if the players were just aware of stupidities. Research demonstrates that we are three to four times more likely to respond to negative stimuli when compared with positive stimuli. Stupidities leverages this insight by identifying the seven deadliest mistakes we can make as we navigate decisions, analyzing the how and why of decisions gone wrong, and offering advice on how to avoid each stupidity in our own life and career.

Stupidities uses a series of well-researched and vivid real-life stories from business, family, the military, and sports, and offers a post-mortem analyses of the point in the decision-making process where a stupidity influenced the decision. To provide balance, there are stupidity-defying heroes sprinkled throughout the book who made good decisions despite facing off against a stupidity.

An invaluable and original guide to smarter decision-making, Stupidities empowers readers to learn from others mistakes and transform the way they navigate lifes biggest choices.

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"Its good to learn from your mistakes. Its better to learn from other peoples mistakes." Warren Buffet

Crisis manager George Pillari takes the reader through a series of real-life case studies to show us that decision making in tense situations is a skill to be learned and perfected. Different from most business books that talk about recipes for success (improve your habits, be more productive, etc.), Stupidities highlights what you need to avoid in order to be successful.

In his foreword to the book, Guy Kawasaki sums it up:
"80 of success is avoiding stupidity."

We learn from the success and failures of Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Oprah Winfrey, Elizabeth Holmes, Google X, JP Morgan, the New York Yankees, the Titan Sub, Thomas Edison, Taylor Swift, and others.

The Seven Deadly Stupidities:
Going for the Moonshot
Surrendering to FOMO
Relying on Family and Friends
Being Blinded by the Upside
Trusting the Media
Using Quick and Dirty Thinking
Neglecting to Measure Twice

There is the amazing story of Soviet General Petrov, who avoided all seven of the stupidities and prevented a global thermonuclear war.

The chapter-by-chapter format lets the reader thumb through and pick the order to read the book. The summary of each stupidity includes lessons learned and advice on how to avoid the stupidity and "be smarter."

We are twice as likely to respond to negative events than positive ones. Pillari uses this behavioral sciences insight to guide the reader through how to learn from the failures of others and become a better decision-maker..

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"It's good to learn from your mistakes. It's better to learn from other people's mistakes." ~Warren Buffet

In his foreword to the book, Guy Kawasaki sums it up:
n"80% of success is avoiding stupidity."

The Seven Deadly Stupidities:
Going for the Moonshot
Surrendering to FOMO
Relying on Family and Friends
Being Blinded by the Upside
Trusting the Media
Using Quick and Dirty Thinking
Neglecting to Measure Twice

There is the amazing story of Soviet General Petrov, who avoided all seven of the stupidities and prevented a global thermonuclear war.

The Seven Deadly Stupidities: Using Other People's Failures to Make Better Decisions

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