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Being Wrong Kathryn Schulz
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详细说明: To err is human Yet most of us go through life assuming and sometimes 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 react to our errors with surprise denial defensiveness and shame In Being Wrong journalist Kathryn Schulz explores why we find it so gratifying to be right and so maddening to be mistaken and how this attitude toward error corrodes relationships whether between family members colleagues neighbors or nations Along the way she takes us on a fascinating tour of human fallibility from wrongful convictions to no fault divorce; medical mistakes to misadventures at sea; failed prophecies to false memories; "I told you so " to "Mistakes were made " Drawing on thinkers as varied as Augustine Darwin Freud Gertrude Stein Alan Greenspan and Groucho Marx she proposes a new way of looking at wrongness In this view error is both a given and a gift one that can transform our worldviews our relationships and most profoundly ourselves In the end Being Wrong is not just an account of human error but a tribute to human creativity the way we generate and revise our beliefs about ourselves and the world At a moment when economic political and religious dogmatism increasingly divide us Schulz explores with uncommon humor and eloquence the seduction of certainty and the crises occasioned by error A brilliant debut from a new voice in nonfiction this book calls on us to ask one of life"s most challenging questions: what if I"m wrong ">To err is human Yet most of us go through life assuming and sometimes 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 d [更多] ...展开收缩
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