I have many times lauded the power of serendipity and yesterday it struck once again. Having written what I did yesterday morning about uninformed decisions I received a link in an email to a TED talk which was right on point about part of my thesis.
Recently I haven’t visited TED (which is one of the sources I long ago mentioned as being in my ignorance trough) often enough, but I do receive regular updates on available talks. As soon as I saw the title “Why you think you’re right — even if you’re wrong” I could tell that I needed to visit this particular talk.
Why you think you’re right — even if you’re wrong
The idea that more people should approach the world like a ‘scout‘ rather than the almost universal ‘soldier‘ viewpoint is very apt and one that melds very well with my own philosophy. It highlights the need to accept that you “don’t know’; that you might be “wrong”; and that you need to look for the “truth” (whatever that may look like in the circumstances) of the situation or decision.