Honorary Magazine 2018-19

“Being wrong is hard and humbling, and some- times even dangerous, but in the end

it is a jour- ney, and a story.” – Kathryn Schulz

“To err is human. Yet most of us go through life tacitly assuming (and sometimes noisily insisting) that we are right about nearly everything, from the origins of the universe to how to load the dishwasher. If being wrong is so natural, why are we all so bad at imagining that our beliefs could be mistaken – and why do we typically react to our errors with surprise, denial, defensiveness, and shame?” This was the central question explored in Kathryn Schultz’s Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error . We explored the connection between wrongness and our own sense of being and place in the world, drawing on case studies and the wisdom of poets and philosophers to look at the deeply personal nature of being wrong. The most ironic piece of this event was that we got the date wrong on the poster. It said Thursday , September 18th, when it was really held on Tuesday , September 18th.

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