More from Being Wrong

[lillibet]

I'll have an actual review as soon as I finish, but in the meantime, here's another passage that I want to capture:

As I noted at the beginning of this book, we take rightness to be our steady state, while experiencing error as an isolated incident, no matter how many times it has happened to us. This might be a pragmatic choice--just a strategy

Comments

[redheadedmuse]

thank so much for sharing this. it's the tidbit of wisdom I needed in my day.

did you see the article in the current Technology Review about 4chan? there was some very interesting material there about the need to be wrong sometimes.

[lillibet]

I have now--thanks for the pointer.

I'm glad you found something in the quotation. I'm really enjoying this book and wanting to share it with everyone I talk to.

[greenlily]

Working with the Entitlement Generation all day has prompted me to begin developing a theory: Part of the reasons my students are so determined that everything they do is right, is that they've never been given good behavior models about how it looks and feels and sounds to be wrong.

I really need to read this book; I think it will help disprove my fledgling theory, but that's fine. :)

[hammercock]

I think you might be onto something. There seem to be a lot of parents out there who can't let the special little snowflakes be wrong...it might hurt their self-esteem! Or some such twaddle.

[dpolicar]

Yup. Wrong is just part of the human condition.

[muffyjo]

I wonder what the chemistry behind this is, ya know?