Tuesday, February 1, 2011

capacity to tolerate error

Our capacity to tolerate error depends on our capacity to tolerate emotion. virtually all of our emotions require us to feel something: a wash of dismay, a moment of foolishness, guilt over our dismissive treatment of someone else who turned out to be right

Our resistance to error is, in no small part, a resistance to being left alone with too few certainties and too many emotions.

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