mistakes on Being Right

I will look at any additional evidence to confirm the opinion to which I have already come.

It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.

I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn’t explain away afterwards.

In her aptly title book, Being Wrong , Kathleen Schulz describes just how difficult it is to be wrong: A whole lot of us go through life assuming that we are basically right, basically all the ti...