Being Wrong: The Virtues of Humility and Doubt by Hugh Taft-Morales

Speaker: Hugh Taft-Morales

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https://youtu.be/5n1_W-AL26g?si=2ItToXkPo884QR_F

We all like to be right, but should we get more comfortable being wrong? So often we make truth claims and proceed to stake so much on them: our ego, our reputation, our power. Given that every person’s knowledge is limited, shouldn’t we let go of certainty and embrace our painstaking collective construction of wisdom? After all, doubt is what launched the freethought movement. Hugh Taft-Morales explores the liberation that comes when one embraces intellectual humility and doubt.

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