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Being Wrong

6 Reasons Why It's Good To Be Wrong

Ed and Deb Shapiro | Posted 09.23.2012 | Healthy Living
Read More: Meditation, Awareness, Personal Development, Humility, Compassion, Wrong and Right, Right and Wrong, Admitting You're Wrong, Admitting Wrong, Being Wrong, Right vs. Wrong, Wrong vs. Right, Healthy Living News
Ed and Deb Shapiro

We believe we are right and are, therefore, the wronged one. But are there benefits to being wrong? Can we turn such a situation around so that we can learn more about ourselves? Imagine how boring it would be if we were all always right!

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Unplugged Summer or Plugged (I Disagree With the NYT)

Emily Franklin | Posted 10.18.2011 | Parents
Read More: Unplugging, Technology and Family, Kids and Nature, Parenting, Being Wrong, Imperfect Parent, Parents News
Emily Franklin

The NYT isn't wrong. I just disagree with this article in which the author describes his terrific "plugged-in summer."

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Teaching Being Wrong

Elory Rozner | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Creativity, Sir Ken Robinson, Alexander Russo, 60 Minutes, Christopher Hitchens, Slate, Diane Ravitch, TED Conference, Being Wrong, Chris Anderson, Education Reform, Kathryn Schulz, Charlie Rose, Home News
Elory Rozner

We require "internal flexibility and communal permission to backtrack and revise." Can we get schools to value teaching this skill, and skilled educators who can teach this value?

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Being Wrong in a Culture Consumed by Comparison

Carol Smaldino | Posted 12.02.2011 | Books
Read More: Education, Kathryn Schulz, Bullying, Being Wrong, Books News
Carol Smaldino

Being Wrong describes our insistent need to be right as an affliction that covers not only our globe but also the living rooms and bedrooms of many of us too much of the time.

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When Were You Last Wrong? We Need to Change How We Think About Our Errors

Johann Hari | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Book Reviews, Kathryn Schultz, Books, Being Wrong, Books News
Johann Hari

We all make mistakes. We also all have a choice about whether to approach our errors in terror so we suppress, ignore and repeat them -- or whether we make them our honest, open ally in trying to get to the truth.

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