"You look for one thing and find something else"

"That's the way it goes sometimes: you look for one thing and find something else." Sancho Panza.

Don Quixote, Vol 1, chapter 16

From the Burton Raffel English translation of "Don Quixote."

This echoes the Ira Glass - via Kathryn Schulz - definition of a story (and one of the ways to view a mistake that I emphasize in the upcoming Mistake Bank book).

Kathryn Schulz discusses the importance of regret

Kathryn Schulz (author of "Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error") has a great TED Talk covering regret - why it's painful, and why it's necessary. Knowing that the absence of regret is a trait of psychopaths is one reason why we shouldn't feel too bad when we, you know, feel bad about something we've done. Schulz had a prior talk which we posted on earlier in the year.

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."