In this passage, Gladwell analyzes the reasons for failure and uses a general analogy to demonstrate why such mistakes occur. A plane is designed and programmed to function altogether, safely, efficiently, and successfully. However, when a plane crashes, the fall does not occur spontaneously, there are repercussions that happen beforehand that ultimately make the plane fall. Gladwell uses this plane to say that many people died because the plane had no fuel and just that. There was no random phenomenon that made this plane crash.
I chose this passage to make a connection between the plane and human error. Planes are all run by humans and although they are not designed to fail, humans are. With these errors, anything that we create is bound to mess up. Typical plane crashes occur because a pilot was tired, rushed, or forced to navigate a plane through horrible weather conditions which as a result, cause the crash. It is the job of the pilot and his crew to communicate together as a team to get a job done, and be dedicated to that job. Whether it be gas or the pilot himself, communication is needed to do a job efficiently. Every job is responsible for serving the public in some way and if there is no communication in doing that job, there is human error doing that job. Overall, I believe Gladwell stresses the importance of communication in this passage and uses the plane analogy to emphasize the gravity of performing a job efficiently.
If I were to connect this to what I wrote about IQ in comparison to intelligence and imagination, I would emphasize how humanistic what we say sounds. You bring up an important point which is humans are bound to fail at some point because nobody is a perfect being while I bring up how different everybody is in terms of free thinking and ingenuity. We're both saying that people, overall, need to be accepted as who they are, for their errors or their miscommunication and their lack of intelligence or imagination, because in the end, we're all still learning from those mistakes and growing as a society.
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ReplyDeleteI found it interesting that you made the comment that humans are created to fail. Not to bring religion into this, but from my knowledge and perspective, I've learned that humans were created to be models after God. However, I do agree with you that miscommunication between humans is often what leads to failures and errors. If we stopped to take the time to talk and share ideas, things such as plane crashes could be prevented from happening.
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