Comfortable with being wrong...? Really?
Vising Boston for the holiday weekend, and while walking thru Harvard's campus, came across a shelf for sharing books. Interesting...which reminds me, "I need to send one in!" Hopefully I am forgiven for that "pecadillo"...hmmm. Well, browsing the "givings", a title caught my eye: "Being Wrong".
What?
"The story of my life!" "Yes." "Pick that one up!" "Wonder what it is!"...my "penthouse dweller" shouted - these and multiple other exclamations as my arm extended towards the book. A book about being wrong...? What? At Harvard?
Anyway, the author, Kathryn Schultz, writes "Adventures in the Margin of Error", as subtitle for her book. Find it in here... and in multiple other sites, too, btw. A quote at the top of the cover reads: "A funny and philosophical meditation on why error is mostly a humane, courageous, and extremely desirable human trait...If admiring [this book] is wrong, I don't want to be right." - Dwight Garner from the New York Times. "Hmmm...seems pretty impressive; as soon as we get home, this one goes to the front of the [pending] pack", the "dweller" suggested.
I am still in the first 20 or so pages...it is a "must read". Lots to say about it, and to comment about, but let me share the phrase in which the reading had to stop earlier today, for munching:
"By examining our sense of certainty...
...and
...our reaction to error...(is that "horror"...?)
...
...in cases where we turn out to be objectively wrong...(note the term "objectively"...!)
...
...we can learn to think differently...(learn to think...? haven't I?...differently...?)
...
...about our convictions...[btw, is that the inner voice, the ehem, "penthouse dweller"?]
...in situations where...
... [ta dááá!]
... no one will ever have the final say."
I am feeling as if I'm sinking..that sensation of standing at the shore when the wave recedes...
What?
"The story of my life!" "Yes." "Pick that one up!" "Wonder what it is!"...my "penthouse dweller" shouted - these and multiple other exclamations as my arm extended towards the book. A book about being wrong...? What? At Harvard?
Anyway, the author, Kathryn Schultz, writes "Adventures in the Margin of Error", as subtitle for her book. Find it in here... and in multiple other sites, too, btw. A quote at the top of the cover reads: "A funny and philosophical meditation on why error is mostly a humane, courageous, and extremely desirable human trait...If admiring [this book] is wrong, I don't want to be right." - Dwight Garner from the New York Times. "Hmmm...seems pretty impressive; as soon as we get home, this one goes to the front of the [pending] pack", the "dweller" suggested.
I am still in the first 20 or so pages...it is a "must read". Lots to say about it, and to comment about, but let me share the phrase in which the reading had to stop earlier today, for munching:
"By examining our sense of certainty and our reaction to error in cases where we turn out to be objectively wrong, we can learn to think differently about our convictions in situations where no one will ever have the final say." Let's format that differently:
"By examining our sense of certainty...
...and
...our reaction to error...(is that "horror"...?)
...
...in cases where we turn out to be objectively wrong...(note the term "objectively"...!)
...
...we can learn to think differently...(learn to think...? haven't I?...differently...?)
...
...about our convictions...[btw, is that the inner voice, the ehem, "penthouse dweller"?]
...in situations where...
... [ta dááá!]
... no one will ever have the final say."
I am feeling as if I'm sinking..that sensation of standing at the shore when the wave recedes...
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