It's well worth the 18 minutes.
Enjoy your Sunday.
"When it comes down to me right now, to all the beliefs I hold, here in the present tense, suddenly all of this abstract appreciation of fallibility goes out the window -- and I can't actually think of anything I'm wrong about. And the thing is, the present tense is where we live. We go to meetings in the present tense; we go on family vacations in the present tense; we go to the polls and vote in the present tense. So effectively, we all kind of wind up traveling through life, trapped in this little bubble of feeling very right about everything. " Kathryn Schulz, On Being Wrong. Ted 2011
5 comments:
Good video talk on an important subject. Thanks!
Elgie,
I watched Schulz's TED talk last week - 3 times; it is powerful enlightenment. Good on you for pointing people to it.
I sent it to an ex- . . she wrote back that she watched it twice and didn't get it. It seems some people can't admit ever possibly being wrong.
The reality Schulz points out - and hard to accept - is that many things we are doing today, everyday, or any day - things we think we are so clear or right about, we are most likely partially or completely wrong about.
It is, for me, all about distance and perspective.
As I get older, I don't have to get quite as far away from something or some date . . to realize how wrong I was.
Maybe wrong, is the new right!
Cheers,
Mark
Love this line Mark -- As I get older, I don't have to get quite as far away from something or some date . . to realize how wrong I was.
so true!
Wonderful talk. Isn't it the most phenomenal shift? I can honestly say that my life has changed dramatically since letting go of the need to be right. I no longer feel embarrassed when I'm wrong. I do feel bad though, when someone else is inconvenienced when I have made a mistake. But until machines do all the work in the world, mistakes will go on being made. (And even with machines, I suppose.)
Thanks, Louise. Excellent talk.
i too think its good to be wrong. :)
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