A friend sent me a link to a video of Kathryn Schulz talking about being wrong -- and I do recommend you watch it (yes, 17 minutes; if I can stretch my tiny attention span, so can you!).
She makes some wonderful points -- like, when you are being wrong, you still FEEL like you're right, since we all live in our self-referential heads. To me this also connects with a recent AP article on the tricky nature of presidential/national apologies. We are just SO BAD in our society about admitting we might be wrong, have been wrong, have even hurt others through our words and deeds. Why else have we never even apologized for slavery? Why, in that tiny moment after seeing any mistake, does our mind race with it's-not-my-fault-I-didn't-do-it-It-must-have-been-somebody-ANYbody-else?
Are our egos so fragile that we must trumpet our alleged "rightness" till everyone else rolls over belly-up? (Am I doing the same right now so you'll think I'm wise?) I don't know, but I think I'll keep chewing on the questions. . . .
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