Category Archives: error

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I was wrong but it’s your fault. I followed a leader who turned out to be dishonest or deluded. I trusted you but you were unreliable. I screwed up but the blame is on you. I outsource my errors to … Continue reading →

Imagine Hamish McDonald, a Scotsman, sitting down with his Glasgow Morning Herald and seeing an article about how the “Brighton Sex Maniac Strikes Again.” Hamish is shocked and declares that “No Scotsman would do such a thing.” [Brighton is not … Continue reading →

There might not exist a single straight forward answer to this question but one sure way for creating a path out of our comfortable assumptions is to make errors, to be wrong.  Being right keeps you in place. Being wrong … Continue reading →

Our capacity to tolerate error depends on our capacity to tolerate emotion. virtually all of our emotions require us to feel something: a wash of dismay, a moment of foolishness, guilt over our dismissive treatment of someone else who turned … Continue reading →

No power on earth except our minds can absolutely and consistently convice us that we are wrong. How many times your friends and family have tried to give you some cues about your error?How many times the information about your being … Continue reading →

The word “zealot” comes from a Greek root meaning to be jealous of the truth—to guard it as your own. Zealots believe that they and they alone are in possession of the truth. They completely reject the possibility of error.

The psychologist Irving Janis defined groupthink as, “a mode of thinking that people engage in when they are deeply involved in a cohesive in-group, when the members’ strivings for unanimity override their motivation to realistically appraise alternative courses of action.”

“I had, during many years, followed a golden rule, namely, that whenever a published fact, a new observation or thought came across me, which was opposed to my general results, to make a memorandum of it without fail and at … Continue reading →