(From Lifehacker.com) We all make mistakes and most of us feel bad about our screw ups, miscalculations, and forays down the wrong rabbit holes. It turns out being wrong some of the time is the price we pay for having powerful cognitive abilities. Human thought process is driven almost entirely by inductive reasoning. We don’t search for the answer or solution that is most absolutely correct in a given situation we search for and provide the answer that has the highest probability of being correct. This leads to us being right most of the time—we’re the experts in the animal kingdom at “guessing” with a very high probability of being right—but inevitably leads to us being wrong some of the time. Kathryn Schulz, the author of Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error is intent on changing the way people view mistakes and embracing that errors are just part of the package when dealing with the brilliance of the human mind. Read more.

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Embrace the Inevitability of Being Wrong to Boost Workplace Productivity