Error Blindness In Ted Talks
In the Ted Talks that I watched for this class, Shultz spoke on why we are stuck in the feeling of being right. Shultz says that we find ourselves stuck in a feeling of being right because of how we feel emotionally when we are wrong. Being wrong feels the same as being right until you realize that you are wrong, and then it can be devastating, embarrassing, and even funny at times. She called this “error blindness”. Shultz notes, that the second reason we are stuck in being right is cultural. “By the time you are nine years old, you've already learned, first of all, that people who get stuff wrong are lazy, irresponsible dimwits -- and second of all, that the way to succeed in life is to never make any mistakes”. (2011) As a result,
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Too often, I insist that I am right, only to find out I was wrong, or worse, that I hurt someone’s feelings in the process. Some of this comes from my childhood, I always felt like the “dumb one”. I did not do my homework at times; I just did not care. However, when I made up my mind to return to school, it was a different story because I wanted to prove myself. That is when I remember becoming a perfectionist.
In Heffernan’s Ted Talk, she told a story about a female doctor named Alice Stewart, her model for thinking was fantastic. She worked with a statistician named George. George and Alice were vastly different, and they were excellent at conflict, they saw it as a thinking process. George’s job was to prove Alice wrong. Heffernan describes this process as constructive conflict and she says for this to work you must first find people extremely different from yourselves, and second you must be ready to change your mind and accept being wrong.
Heffernan states that one on one is not too hard to accomplish, the biggest problems that we face, do not come from individuals, they come from large organizations and the people inside are afraid to have conflict. This could mean they might be required to argue with their boss, or suggest that they might be wrong. This means that organizations cannot think together properly and have worked hard to find the best employees they can, but are not getting the best out of
Too often, I insist that I am right, only to find out I was wrong, or worse, that I hurt someone’s feelings in the process. Some of this comes from my childhood, I always felt like the “dumb one”. I did not do my homework at times; I just did not care. However, when I made up my mind to return to school, it was a different story because I wanted to prove myself. That is when I remember becoming a perfectionist.
In Heffernan’s Ted Talk, she told a story about a female doctor named Alice Stewart, her model for thinking was fantastic. She worked with a statistician named George. George and Alice were vastly different, and they were excellent at conflict, they saw it as a thinking process. George’s job was to prove Alice wrong. Heffernan describes this process as constructive conflict and she says for this to work you must first find people extremely different from yourselves, and second you must be ready to change your mind and accept being wrong.
Heffernan states that one on one is not too hard to accomplish, the biggest problems that we face, do not come from individuals, they come from large organizations and the people inside are afraid to have conflict. This could mean they might be required to argue with their boss, or suggest that they might be wrong. This means that organizations cannot think together properly and have worked hard to find the best employees they can, but are not getting the best out of