Failure to anticipate

[Shiny Side Up]

Been reading a very interesting book the last while called Collapse by the same fellow who wrote the book Guns, Germs and Steel. Thoroghly interesting (for those of you interested in such things) and thoroghly grim book, it doesn't paint a pretty picture for the fate of the planet (and hence us as human beings). "How does this relate to us as pilots Shiny?" many of you are asking by now, Glad you asked!

For those of you interested in why people do seemingly illogical, unreasonable, unfathomable, or just plain stupid things, there's a chapter in the book titled Failure to Anticipate which explores the reasons above. The bonus part is that it (and the rest of the book) is written well enough for most of us semi-litereate pilot folk to read, and possibly enjoy. For those of you who maybe have the onus of teaching groundschool, It explains a lot of factors when it comes to the discussion on PDM and much better than a lot of literature - notably various study guides and the FIG.

Anyhoo, just thought I'd put that out there for people.

[happily.retired]

I'll second that. I haven't read the book yet but I've watch a few documentaries by the guy and he's absolutely facinating. Likes to look at why people do the things we do right from an individual up to the global level. I'll have to check out the book.
Thanks Shiny

[Pugster]

Looks like I've just found my next late-night 3 hour leg reading material.

Thanks!