Inversion: Thinking Backward to Solve Forward
Inversion is asking what guarantees failure instead of what guarantees success. Florence Nightingale cut mortality from 42% to 2% using it.
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3 corrections applied: Munger's 1986 'invert' commencement speech was at Harvard School (the prep school), not Harvard Law School. | Mitchell, Russo & Pennington (1989) prospective-hindsight study appeared in the Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, not Journal of Experimental Psychology (matches article's own reference list). | Same study; correct journal is Journal of Behavioral Decision Making.
Before1986 commencement address at Harvard Law School / ...quoting the blockquote citation "Charlie Munger, Harvard Law School, 1986" / prospective hindsight published in Journal of Experimental Psychology (x2)
After1986 commencement address at Harvard School / blockquote citation corrected to "Charlie Munger, Harvard School, 1986" / prospective hindsight published in Journal of Behavioral Decision Making (x2)
Why: Body prose and bibliography were already correctly fixed for the Harvard School and Journal of Behavioral Decision Making corrections. However a leftover blockquote citation line still read Harvard Law School - fixed to match the corrected body text. Verified clean on re-fetch. FAQ and excerpt checked, no fabrication present there.
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