1. Kathryn Schulz, On being wrong:
Most of us will do anything to avoid being wrong. But what if we’re wrong about that? Kathryn Schulz, staff writer for the New Yorker and the author of “Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error.” – makes a compelling case for not just admitting but embracing our fallibility.
2. Diana Laufenberg, How to learn From mistakes:
Diana Laufenberg shares three surprising things she has learned about teaching — including a key insight about learning from mistakes. For over 15 years Diana has been a secondary social studies teacher in Wisconsin, Kansas, Arizona and Pennsylvania.
3. Stefon Harris, There are no mistakes on the bandstand:
What is a mistake? By talking through examples with his improvisational Jazz quartet, Stefon Harris walks us to a profound truth: many actions are perceived as mistakes only because we don’t react to them appropriately.4. Margaret Heffernan: The dangers of willful blindness
Gayla Benefield was just doing her job — until she uncovered an awful secret about her hometown that meant its mortality rate was 80 times higher than anywhere else in the US. But when she tried to tell people about it, she learned an even more shocking truth: People didn’t want to know. In a talk that’s part history lesson, part call-to-action, Margaret Heffernan demonstrates the danger of willful blindness, and praises ordinary people like Benefield who are willing to speak up.
6. Tim Harford: Trial, error and the God complex:
Economics writer Tim Harford studies complex systems — and finds a surprising link among the successful ones: they were built through trial and error. In this sparkling talk from TEDGlobal 2011, he asks us to embrace our randomness and start making better mistakes.
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