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1,001 things… is compiled and written by Linda Gray


everyone


should know… HOW TO… learn from


your mistakes WE’RE NEVER


WE REALISE THAT WE ARE, WE’RE RIGHT. So say error specialists, who study the science of mistakes. And be warned—it makes you question everything you think you know.


WE’RE NEVER WRONG BECAUSE AS SOON AS WE REAL


For a start, we need to accept that everyone is fallible, beliefs are a matter of choice, and knowledge is just what we know now. It means acknowledging that we constantly make mistakes, even though “it leaves us feeling idiotic and ashamed”, as Kathryn Schulz says in her eye-opener of a book, Being Wrong (£15).


We see mistakes as abnormal, so we justify the decisions that got us into such a mess, edit our memories to erase the times we got it wrong, and find it easier to admit trivial errors than our


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