Kathryn Schulz gave a talk at the RSA on "Being Wrong". She discussed how being wrong is an inevitable part of human experience and is essential to learning and innovation. Attendees discussed embracing uncertainty and failure. They highlighted the need for a culture where people can admit mistakes without blame in order to improve. The talk emphasized that being wrong reminds us of the limitations of human knowledge and the importance of continually questioning our beliefs.
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These are our views (macro, technical as well as quantitative) on the financial markets for the month to come...
FinLight Research is a quantitative cross-asset research firm with an expertise in real assets analysis and a focus on some specific issues: risk budgeting, asset allocation, trading systems and business intelligence.
From here, we are rethinking, day after day, the investment paradigm, preparing optimally for what lies ahead… This is our pretension!
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October 4, 2010
7:01 am commutiny Hopefully be seeing some of you at #rsaschulz tonight, "on being wrong" @
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gloryoffailure
10:34 am RSAEvents: Our speaker this evening Kathryn Schulz was on woman's hour this morning.
http://bbc.in/bR3usd #rsaschulz
3:59 pm commutiny RT @RSAEvents: Our speaker this evening Kathryn Schulz was on woman's hour
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this morning. http://bbc.in/bR3usd #rsaschulz
4:50 pm GreenSundays Being Wrong- listen live to the RSA event #rsaschulz live http://www.thersa.org/
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events/our-events/on-being-wrong
4:51 pm commutiny Hooray! Just reconnected with @lucyinnovation What a treat :) #rsaschulz
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5:01 pm benjaminm: Looking forward to hearing @wrongologist Kathryn Schulz speak at the #RSA on
'Being Wrong' #rsaschulz
5:02 pm doug_mather: Used #borisbike to beat strike, now at @RSAevents for #rsaschulz talk "0n being
wrong"
5:05 pm commutiny Kathryn Schulz is about to talk about wrongness with discussion chaired by Robert
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Rowland Smith #rsaschulz
5:06 pm katzish: .@wrongologist is addressing the Royal Society of the Arts in London right now!
You can listen live at http://bit.ly/cBm7ml #rsaschulz
5:09 pm commutiny The guardian review describes Kathy as 'forbiddingly clever & dangerously wise' #
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rsaschulz
5:10 pm commutiny Kathryn is keeping the camera operators busy as she has leapt from the stage and
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enjoys pacing as she talks #rsaschulz
5:11 pm commutiny You can download the podcast of this lecture from www.thersa.org in a few days
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time #rsaschulz #rsaschulz
5:11 pm shane_dillon: At @rsaevents for #rsaschulz on the topic of 'Being Wrong' http://
twitpic.com/2unjwo
5:12 pm commutiny Are any other Fellows in the House tonight? (@shane_dillon @benjaminm@doug_
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mather ) #rsaschulz
5:13 pm commutiny Our chair tonight is @RRSphilosopher #rsaschulz
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5:13 pm vivslf: RT @RSAEvents: Our speaker this evening Kathryn Schulz was on woman's hour
this morning. http://bbc.in/bR3usd #rsaschulz
5:13 pm ClaudiaBarwell #rsaschulz Latin translation of "error" is "to wander"
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5:14 pm commutiny RT @ClaudiaBarwell: #rsaschulz Latin translation of "error" is "to wander" #
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rsaschulz
5:15 pm commutiny RT @vivslf: RT @RSAEvents: Our speaker this evening Kathryn Schulz was on
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womans hour this morning. http://bbc.in/bR3usd #rsaschulz
5:17 pm commutiny Wow, @wrongologist is a champion of everything @gloryoffailure stands for http://
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ow.ly/2OcCY #rsaschulz
5:21 pm commutiny There is almost no belief we can have about the world that does not in certain
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circumstancesfail us #rsaschulz
5:22 pm commutiny Our brains are capable of misinterpreting the signals to our body. Wrongness
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reminds of the gap between our mind and the world #rsaschulz
5:23 pm ClaudiaBarwell RT @commutiny There is almost no belief we can have about the world that does
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not in certain circumstancesfail us #rsaschulz
5:25 pm commutiny If you want to get involved in UK based initiatives around #failure & wrongness
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check this out http://ow.ly/2OcXu #rsaschulz
5:27 pm commutiny I like the way Kathryn is linking her approach to wrongnessto the RSA's new
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strapline "21st century enlightenment" #rsaschulz
5:28 pm commutiny We should accept the idea of the possibility of wrongnessand insist on a space at
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thee table for uncertainty & error #rsaschulz
5:29 pm commutiny "What if I'm wrong?" is one of the most challenging questions we can ask
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2. Transcript for #rsaschulz - What the Hashtag?! Page 4
ourselves #rsaschulz
5:29 pm benjaminm: "We should ask ourselves - what do I know? What if I am wrong?" @wrongologist
#rsaschulz
5:30 pm commutiny Things get interesting and we learn the most when unexpected things happen.
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Doubt and error fundamental to innovation & change #rsaschulz
5:30 pm flowchainsensei RT @benjaminm "We should ask ourselves - what do I know? What if I am
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wrong?" @wrongologist #rsaschulz
5:32 pm commutiny #Failure leads to great insight and new ideas - along with doubt it is essential
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characteristic of creative #genius #rsaschulz
5:32 pm benjaminm: "We should welcome and accept doubt into our lives" @wrongologist #rsaschulz
5:33 pm benjaminm: RT @commutiny #Failure leads to great insight and new ideas - along with doubt
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it is essential characteristic of creative #genius #rsaschulz
5:33 pm commutiny Read all about it! http://www.beingwrongbook.com/ #rsaschulz
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5:34 pm commutiny Perhaps the history of the errors of mankind ... is more valuable and interesting
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than that of their discoveries. BenFranklin #rsaschulz
5:34 pm flowchainsensei RT @benjaminm "We should welcome and accept doubt into our lives" @
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wrongologist #rsaschulz
5:35 pm commutiny Stimulating stuff, now on to questions... I can pass them on if you use the hashtag
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#rsaschulz
5:36 pm commutiny In Being Wrong, Kathryn Schulz explores why we find it so gratifying to be right
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and so maddening to be mistaken, #rsaschulz
5:38 pm commutiny @RRSphilosopher wonders if the ubiquity of error means that we live in a state of
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permanent uncertainty and incompleteness #rsaschulz
5:40 pm commutiny Response: We can't have the capacity to be curious and creative without a degree
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of delusion and uncertainty (wrongness #rsaschulz
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5:41 pm benjaminm: I like the idea that science, not just art, celebrates error. Go science! @
wrongologist #rsaschulz
5:41 pm commutiny Provocative q - is Science a less mature discipline in its pursuit of perfection than
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the Arts, which embrace failure? #rsaschulz
5:42 pm commutiny Response: Science celebrates error too! #rsaschulz
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5:43 pm commutiny In the end, Being Wrong is not just an account of human error but a tribute to
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human creativity #rsaschulz
5:45 pm commutiny Errotica >> share hilarious, horrifying, and fascinating stories of their own and
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other people's error http://ow.ly/2OdRF #rsaschulz
5:46 pm commutiny Q: What's the difference between socially constructed right & wrong vs how we
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define it internally? #rsaschulz
5:48 pm commutiny Response: Right & wrong are not simple truths - often rightness is simply the
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prevailing view #rsaschulz
5:49 pm commutiny Q: Please tell us more about the 'joy of being wrong' & also the fear of admitting
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failure? #rsaschulz
5:52 pm commutiny The Risk Doctor aka David Hillson (editor of the Failure Files) is here http://
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ow.ly/2Oe8c #rsaschulz
5:53 pm commutiny From the audience "By publicly declaring #failure you demonstrate a commitment
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to getting things right" #rsaschulz
5:54 pm commutiny Usually an admittance of being wrong is immediately followed by a big BUT. We
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like to explain away our mistakes #rsaschulz
5:55 pm commutiny If you can say "I was wrong" and leave it at that, you get some interesting &
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gratifying responses < I agree with @wrongologist #rsaschulz
5:57 pm commutiny Admitting being wrong can result in a high price to pay (esp in politics) #rsaschulz
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5:57 pm commutiny Q: How do we deal with the blame culture? #rsaschulz
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5:57 pm benjaminm: Finally, someone mentions that being wrong is essential to learning! #rsaschulz
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5:59 pm commutiny A: Politics has the most disfunctional culture around admitting mistakes and
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uncertainty) #rsaschulz
5:59 pm commutiny This is a folly - we need leaders who can deal with ambiguity #rsaschulz
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6:00 pm commutiny @benjaminmPlease come and find us afterwards? You sound like a fellow traveller
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for @gloryoffailure #rsaschulz
6:01 pm commutiny A: The tendency to assign blame for mistake is deeply misguided, though we
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should accept responsibility for our own #rsaschulz
6:03 pm commutiny Any impulse to begin analysis of mistakes by assigning blame to people
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underminesthe ability to learn & change #rsaschulz
6:03 pm DanieVermeulen RT @benjaminmFinally, someone mentions that being wrong is essential to
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learning! #rsaschulz
6:04 pm commutiny The airline industry does not blame people for mistakes - it rewards them for
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opening up & identifying failures #rsaschulz
6:05 pm commutiny If you enjoyed #rsaschulz you might like to read the article by @addingvalue in the
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RSA Journal http://ow.ly/2OcHm
6:06 pm commutiny How do we achieve this culture change in other realms? (These folk can help)
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http://rsafellowship.com/group/gloryoffailure #rsaschulz
6:10 pm doug_mather: Fascinating talk at the RSA by @wrongologist #rsaschulz
6:11 pm sumit: "being wrong reminds us of the gap between our minds and the world" #rsaschulz
6:17 pm commutiny RT @sumit: "being wrong reminds us of the gap between our minds and the
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world" #rsaschulz
6:21 pm commutiny The Risk Doctor is chatting to the Lord of the Lobsters at #rsaschulz http://
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ow.ly/2Ofp7
6:38 pm JR0cket: RT @benjaminm Looking forward to hearing @wrongologist Kathryn Schulz speak
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at the #RSA on 'Being Wrong' #rsaschulz
7:13 pm LucyInnovation RT @commutiny The airline industry does not blame people for mistakes - it
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rewards them for opening up & identifying failures #rsaschulz
7:14 pm Daneel3001: RT @benjaminm Finally, someone mentions that being wrong is essential to
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learning! #rsaschulz
8:40 pm commutiny @benjaminmThx for chat at #Rsaschulz We welcome your thoughts on #learning
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from #failure. Want to write a couple of paras for our blog?
October 5, 2010
2:42 am kengkaj_s: RT @benjaminm "We should welcome and accept doubt into our lives" @
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wrongologist #rsaschulz
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