Thursday, April 21, 2011

Kathryn Schulz explains how believing we're right, even if we're not - makes us humans

Kathryn Schulz, author of "Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error," discusses how our propensity to create explanations for things, most of which turn out to be incorrect, is not a disability, but rather the source of our human uniqueness.

My favorite line is when Schulz quotes from Ira Glass, describing the theme of his show, "This American Life": "I thought this one thing was going to happen, and something else happened instead."

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