Description

To err is human. However the majority of us undergo life accepting (and occasionally requiring) that people are right about almost anything, from the roots of the world to just how to fill the dishwasher. Why are we all so poor at picturing our values might be mistaken, if being incorrect is so normal, and why do we respond to our mistakes with shock, denial, disgrace, and defensiveness? In Being Incorrect, correspondent Kathryn Schulz examines this perspective toward mistake corrodes relationships—whether between family unit members, co-workers, neighbors, or countries how, and why we think it is so satisfying to be correct and so frustrating to be mistaken.