I’m reading a book by Mario Livio, Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein — Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe. As the title implies, it’s a study of how even history’s greatest scientists have committed enormous mistakes in the course of their work.
In his introduction, Livio writes, “We often blame the absolutely wrong causes for our misfortunes. This misattribution, by the way, is one of the reasons that we rarely actually learn from our mistakes.”
If you’ve spent more than, oh, about five minutes hanging around the poker world, I think you’ll see the face of just about every poker player reflected in the mirror of that general truth.