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I watched an interview of the serial entrepreneur David Blank…
He wrote an excellent book that became a best seller on Startup. He told a story about a World War 2 manufacturer of airplanes. I think it explained the concept of the Blind Spot well.
Engineers wanted to reinforce the plane in order to bring more pilots home.
Among all of the planes that came back, everyone of them were: either touched at the tail, or in the wings. The engineers decided to reinforce the tail. It didn’t change the number! They decided to reinforce the wings and let the pilots go. Once again, it didn’t change anything in the results. They reinforced the tail and the wings and as you might expect, it failed.
In a last effort to help…
They did what was least expected to work, they reinforced everything in the plane, besides the tails and the wings…
It worked…
Later, they understood that only the planes that were touched in the wings and the tail came back, all the others never made the trip home, they either died in the pacific ocean or on land (may those hero rest in peace).
No matter how well you are prepared…
You can’t predict everything. You always have a blind spot. It’s in every area of life, it can be in your business as well as in your relationships.
Let me share a personal story…
I’ve lived with a girl for more than 8 months. Everything was perfect at least I imagined it. One day, she went back to her country and blocked me on Facebook, Skype, didn’t pick up the phone. To this day, I don’t know what happened. I believe something I wasn’t paying attention to. Aka my blind spot.
In my new relationship I try to ask for more feedback..
Give space to my girl to express herself and not be mister “I know exactly what you think,”. I realise how often I’m wrong in my analysis of the situation. I tend to be a pessimist (I’m getting better though).
In our relationship with our children…,
we may offend them because we think we know what is wrong (automatically thinking of bad grades or … ) often if we “shut up” and listen we learn new things about ourselves and those we are in a relationship with. I spoke about it in my previous article on communication.
In health..,
how often do we follow the wrong diet for our own body. We make so much mistakes – that’s why life doesn’t trust us in the beating of our own heart :). It reminds me of the poet and writer Fernando Pessoa who said: “O coração, se pudesse pensar, pararia.” (if the heart could think, it would stop).
We all have a blind spot even if we don’t want to think so. In any area: In relationships, how many couples break up for a reason that was unexpected, how many companies fail for unexpected reasons.
Let me know what you think, I’m curious to know
Yves
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I have a blind spot in my housekeeping, I just don't see when it's messy, some things can lay on a certain place for ages, not bothering me at all :)
Hello Loes,
Having feedback from other people helps.
Well for housekeeping it's hard to be honest and say "your house is a mess". I don't want to hurt people and if they feel good in it why not. But I once met a girl who hosted dead animals... in here fridge, this was too much for me. :(
Thank you again
Yves
I have dead animals in my fridge too, but they are clean, cut and seasoned ;)
Hahahahaha, I meant dead cats, dead rats ok I should have specified you got me
Thank you
Haha
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