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Posted by: Elder George Carlin ( )
Date: April 30, 2011 02:21PM
On being wrong

I can sure relate to this. It was a scary, yet beautiful experience when I realized that I had been wrong about the Mormon Church.

This is 18 minutes. I hope you enjoy it: http://www.ted.com/talks/kathryn_schulz_on_being_wrong.html

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Posted by: angsty ( )
Date: April 30, 2011 02:32PM
Super!!!

I'm listening right now. I just posted it to my fb wall.

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Posted by: sjmukidashi ( )
Date: April 30, 2011 04:48PM
Re: On being wrong

I had a dream she gave this talk at a Mormon General Conference.

Some of her words:
[Why we sometimes misunderstand the signs around us? and how we misbehave when that happens?]

[We effectively wind up traveling through life trapped in this little bubble feeling very right about everything.]

[How does it feel to be wrong?] She puts it a different way - [How does it feel to realize you're wrong?]
[Her Roadrunner cartoon analogy is worth hearing]
[Error-blindness]
[The bad lessons we've learned really well.
People insist that getting something wrong means there's something wrong with us]

The series of unfortunate assumptions slide is great. The 3rd assumption on her list seemed familiar.
[They know the truth and they are deliberately distorting it for their own malevolent purposes. This attachment to our own
rightness keeps us from preventing mistakes when we absolutely have to. And causes us to treat each other terribly]

I like what she concluded with rediscovering wonder. I've been in this space ever since realizing how wrong I was during my mission.

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Posted by: get her done ( )
Date: April 30, 2011 06:43PM
Re: On being wrong

Excellent video.

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Posted by: Elder George Carlin ( )
Date: April 30, 2011 07:05PM
A couple of her statements really stood out...

"If you really want to rediscover wonder, you need to step outside that tiny, terrified space of 'rightness' and look around at each other, and look at the vastness and complexity of the Universe, and be able to say 'Wow! I don't know. Maybe I was wrong.'"

This attachment to our own rightness, keeps us from preventing mistakes when we really need to."
- Kathryn Schulz

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Posted by: Human ( )
Date: May 02, 2011 11:05AM
Re: On being wrong

top

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Posted by: Lost Mystic ( )
Date: May 02, 2011 11:15AM
Re: On being wrong

I thought it was great!

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Posted by: Raider ( )
Date: May 02, 2011 11:50AM
Re: On being wrong

Excellent video Thanks for sharing

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Posted by: ExMormonRon ( )
Date: May 02, 2011 11:51AM
Re: On being wrong

Can't say, I've never been wrong in my entire life. ;)

Just sayin'...

Ron

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Posted by: tiptoes ( )
Date: May 02, 2011 11:58AM
Re: On being wrong

@ExMormonRon--how are you recovering? We have missed you.

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Posted by: ExMormonRon ( )
Date: May 02, 2011 12:02PM
Re: On being wrong

Surgery on Wednesday. Just got back from Napa. Had to have some downtime in between. Thanks for asking! :)

Ron

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