Kathryn Schulz: On being wrong | Video on TED.com - 1 views
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So what I want to do today is, first of all, talk about why we get stuck inside this feeling of being right. And second, why it's such a problem. And finally, I want to convince you that it is possible to step outside of that feeling and that if you can do so, it is the single greatest moral, intellectual and creative leap you can make.
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Augustine understood that our capacity to screw up, it's not some kind of embarrassing defect in the human system, something we can eradicate or overcome.
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This attachment to our own rightness keeps us from preventing mistakes when we absolutely need to and causes us to treat each other terribly.
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