Example: Those that understand bacterial resistance and strengthening in biology, but fail to understand that revolutions feed on repression, that people are strengthened and hardened by being repressed.
Insight: Many people can understand concepts and ideas in one domain and fail to understand or recognise it in another (biology and finance for example).
Insight: Humans often fail to recognise situations outside of the context with which they learn about them.
Insight: The failure to translate wisdom or ideas across contexts can lead to fragility in the usefulness of those ideas.
Insight: Due to domain dependence, we often forget that the knowledge or information we have about things may not translate into other real world situations.
Insight: We often make the mistake of thinking that skills observed in one domain are transferable in other fields or areas of life.
Insight: It is not prudent to believe that skills in talking equate to skills in doing, it is therefore unfair and wrong to measure people by how good they are at talking.
Example: Believing that a good chess player would be good at strategy in real life.
Insight: When things break there is an irreversibility of damage. Fragility arises from path dependence - taking actions to prevent fragility become irrelevant after something is broken - to be preventative they must be done before things break.
Insight: People in business often miss the logical precedence of sustainability (survival) over success (profits).
