Arrogance mascarade as perfectionism. It ignores good sense. It denies its ignorance. Its terror is in what it does to oppose change. It says you’re what you do and how well you do it. At its core, it’s about trying to earn approval. A blindside to the best of us.

Business failure, is the cause arrogance?

Kodak pivoted its core business from dry plates to film, and from black and white to color. But missed its chance to usher in the digital photography revolution fearing it would cannibalize the existing business of film. Although the digital camera technology was invented by them in 1975.

At its invention just because it was filmless photography, Rochester Steven J. Sasson, an electrical engineer who invented the technology in the 1970s, remembers management’s reaction was, ‘that’s cute but don’t tell anyone about it.’ ”

Kodak struggled but it has fallen into obscurity soon after.

Catastrophic deaths toll number is the cause arrogance?

Over 2 million sailors perished between the 16th and 18th centuries due to scurvy a preventable disease. Scurvy disproportionately affected lower-ranking sailors. Officers, who had better diets, saw the disease as a sign of laziness rather than malnutrition. Doctors blamed scurvy on “bad air” or blocked pores.

Scurvy early remedies were largely anecdotal but in 1747, Scottish surgeon James Lind conducted the first controlled clinical trial proving citrus cured scurvy. Yet his findings were ignored for over 50 years.

Vasco da Gama’s 1497–1499 voyage to India saw two-thirds of his crew perish from scurvy. Similarly, Ferdinand Magellan’s circumnavigation (1519–1522) lost over 80% of his men to the disease. By the 18th century, scurvy a disease with a cure killed more sailors than combat, storms, and shipwrecks combined.