Preface ix
1 Failure Is Fundamental
1(24)
How a Brain Scientist and a Psychologist Helped Me Stop Procrastinating
2 The Virtuous Society
25(27)
What Two Economists and an Anthropologist Can Teach Us about Free Markets
3 The Experimenters
52(27)
Why There Are No Guarantees in Hollywood or Silicon Valley
4 Accidents, Mistakes, Failures, And Disasters
79(26)
What the Hospital System Can Teach Us about the Mistakes We Make
5 Crisis
105(29)
What a Bad Breakup Can Tell Us about the GM Bailout
6 Admitting You Have A Problem
134(19)
What Gamblers Anonymous Could Have Taught Dan Rather
7 Getting Unstuck
153(34)
Adopting the Way of the Shark
8 Blame
187(27)
Blamestorming and the Moral of the Financial Crisis
9 Punishment
214(25)
Why Consistency Is the Secret to Breaking Bad Behavior
10 Forgiveness
239(26)
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Embrace Easy Bankruptcy (Though Not Personally)
Coda 265(4)
Acknowledgments 269(4)
Notes 273(18)
Index 291