On the other hand, the thinking process found to be effective appears to be more recursive, and the failure thinking modes seemed to be less so: less data drive

On the other hand, the thinking process found to be effective appears to be more recursive, and the failure thinking modes seemed to be less so: less data driven, less flexible in their handling of feedback, and so on. I might suggest that this article/research sets out a meta-thinking process, a second-order thinking process if you like (akin to second-order moral principles: another level of abstraction), compared with many other more narrow, less flexible, less recursive and more simply rule-driven than this.