Gary Kasparov became the youngest ever undisputed World Chess Champion in 1985 at age 22. He was very successful from other grandmasters at that time because he was so different than most of them about how he handles the match results.
He did 2 things differently,
1. whenever he loses a match, he analyzes the match, not about the move which made him to lose the match like "Pawn taking bishop" etc, but he will look into this decision-making process how he arrived at that move. Looking at a particular move and analyze is called output thinking but looking at the decision-making process which product that output is called system thinking. He analyzes about what did in that match, how he prepared for that match, what was his mental model when he played the match so that he can understand the flaw in his decision-making process and correct them.
if he would have fixed the one most which made him lost he can only avoid that output in future, but he fixes the flaw in his decision-making process which would then avoid other 50 possible incorrect moves.
2. He not only analyze his failure, but he also analyzes his success as well. he reviews the match he won and understand what contributed to that win
Book Recommendation: How Life Imitates Chess (2007)
Yeah! Any professional or team should understand the difference between System Thinking Vs Output thinking and also analyze the cause even though it was a success.
Why should analyze the root cause of the success?
Some times we would have been a success because we were just lucky, it happened based so many factors which were not in our hand. So it is more important to analyze the success to understand the cause so that we can repeat the best practice not to cement the bad habits which we don't know that didn't really contribute to our success.
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