Thursday, April 28, 2011

Being Wrong: Kathryn Schulz

What I have taken away form this video is that being wrong is completely different from realizing you're wrong. The speaker used effective techniques at speaking through stories, pictures and examples illustrating her points along with involving the audience in her presentation. Her presentation style is humorous and very connected to examples as well as being connected to the audience. This video matters because it says how being wrong is more important than people might think. Personally, this affects me because it teaches me a valuable life lesson that even though I'm wrong, there's not necessarily something wrong with me. In this video, Kathryn Shulz brought up a picture of a C- test and said that we all thought this person had something wrong with them because they got the questions wrong. This isn't true and even though wrong answers are bad for the grade, they don't reflect personal values. In the world, it would teach people to be more understanding of wrongness and more tolerant and accepting of people with opposing views, people who you think are "wrong" compared to your view.

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