Being Wrong is not Always a Bad Thing

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Being Wrong is not Always a Bad Thing Watching Kathryn Schulz’s Ted Talk “On being wrong” is an outlook on reality that people these days don’t look at or even have considered. What Schulz does is explain why overachievers or people who want to be perfect are stuck in this little box of perfection and that we need to get out. Being Wrong is one of the most natural things us as humans can do. It is something that everyone of us has done at one time or another, no one is ever perfect. And if so why don’t we accept our wrongness, ignore or even get embarrassed by it. Schulz says that we have been taught perfection all the way back to grade school, and that if we as people didn’t get everything right or perfect that we were stupid or someone who didn’t do their homework a loser. So eventually as students grow up they want to be that perfect person and since people think they are right almost all the time that when the moment comes where we are proven wrong, we feel that something is not only wrong but something is wrong with us. Schulz states that we as people are so obsessed with trying to figure things out and to her that this obsession is the foundation of our creativity. Ronald Hoffman author of essay “The Tense Middle” is a Chemist that believes in the tense middle. Hoffman tells us about his experience of being in the “middle”. He was born in Poland in 1937 out of a Jewish family during this time was the nazi regime. Most of his family was killed, besides him and his mother. They took shelter in the attic of a Ukrainian teacher and at the time Ukraine was a big allie of the Nazi regime. He knows that there is either good or evil but understands that we as human beings have a decision to pick either one or the other bu... ... middle of paper ... ...e completely different angles, but the meaning behind each are the same. Ted Gup, Allan Barger and Kathryn Shulzs tells us that it is okay to be wrong, okay to be different, or simply uncertain of what you believe; meanwhile, most people have been taught at a young age that being perfect is the only way to succeed, or not knowing what you believe in is strange. I think these three authors make great valid points and each give good meaning behind the reasons why they believe what they believe. I feel the most compelling and convincing story is Ronald Hoffmans, about his childhood hiding from the Nazi Regime. How he was stuck in The Tense Middle of true good and true evil. shared is A To succeed we as people try to find some sort common ground, or understanding of ourselves and sometimes its not always the right answer but it is the answer that we believe is right.

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