Chaos is bad, right? Design thinking and the Wright Brothers
Three areas of focus and themes of The Wright Brothers by David McCullough are brotherhood, chaos — good chaos, and resilience.
Having a strong bond with your future business partner can be extremely beneficial, with trust built up through experiences you two have shared. In the case of Orville and Wilbur Wright, their bond is the strongest any two people could have — brotherhood.

In order to invent something new — or even harder — to think of a concept that people have thought of for years, but doubted it could ever be done; it would take an extremely high performing team. There are two general elements of a high performing team, shown below.

If you have a sibling, you might be able to understand how this might be an advantage for a business or any other team, for that matter. If you don’t, it might be a little harder to explain, but I’ll try! Brothers, or siblings who have grown up together have experienced the same hardships and have developed high engagement and support with each other throughout their lives. When siblings are younger, they tend to fight and argue quite often. Eventually, the fighting subsides but the arguing lingers for a bit. After a few more years, the arguing goes away, for the most part. However, it comes back in a different form — constructive criticism. Some people can be easily offended by criticism. I don’t fall in this bucket, but I would get offended in certain areas. Where this is good with a sibling is that when they provide their criticisms, I am never offended, no matter how truthful it may be! Now, check out some more details of a high performing team below.

When you delve in a bit deeper, this is what the path to a high-performing team looks like. If you brainstorm and think a little harder, where else have you possibly seen a diagram that looks like this? I’ll answer that later.
Having a sibling as your partner can make these steps much easier. In the forming section, this builds excitement and a fun relationship between you two, which hopefully you’ve already had with them for years. The storming section is where things get messy, and the support comes in handy. Your sibling knows you better than anyone in the world — including your parents. Everything you tell your parents your sibling will know — and more. In this confusing gray area, there are ups and downs and help will be needed by someone you trust, or better, family. After the hardships of chaos and confusion, you get to the norming stage, followed by performing.

If you thought design thinking to the question raised above, you are correct.
A connection between the storming phase in a high functioning team path and the immersion phase in the design thinking process is utter chaos — at least that’s what it feels like. This part is when you find something new and force yourself to learn every aspect about it. In the Wright Brother’s case, it was birds. They studied birds for hours and hours trying to understand how they could fly. Before the text in The Wright Brothers, there is a quote from Wilbur, “No bird soars in a calm.” He never planned on this quote being attached to the design thinking process, but that’s what it describes. The immersion step, or empathy step, followed by ideation is rather chaotic and quite the opposite of calm, until the prototyping steps of hands on work. When you prototype, you understand what you need to do and create. The last step is to test.
In the late 1800s and early 20th century, you could imagine the struggle of convincing people you have developed a way to fly and that it truly is possible. Resilience is something Orville and Wilbur possessed that helped them tremendously in their struggle to put themselves in the air. Resilience is needed by anyone who attempts to solve a huge problem or come up with a never before seen innovation. Their idea was completely outlandish at the time, and no common person believed this would be possible, until they saw it with their own eyes. They had gone through entire design thinking process in the first 122 pages of the book — where I stopped reading. You may go through tens or even hundreds of iterations of your project until it is complete, but some people quit after only a few. Have the resilience like Orville and Wilbur did to make history.
