Reddit reviews Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error

For when you're tired of being right.

It would be helpful if you could figure out why you're being indecisive. There are books for every reason that you could come up with.

Are you indecisive because of:

• Fear of missing out? Try mindfulness (I have no book recommendation for this, sorry!)
  
• Fear of making a mistake? Being Wrong, by Kathryn Schulz
  
• Crippled by outside/social forces? Try stoicism. The Daily Stoic (website) or Meditations by Marcus Aurelius.
  
• Finding motivation to do anything at all? Is this depression? Is this a lack of things around you and in your life that you actually like? Get help or otherwise get to know yourself deeply.
  
• Avoidant behaviors spilling across life zones for some other reason, such as possibly trauma? Get professional help-- that's a deeper problem than finding motivation. I personally found Brene Brown useful with this situation.
  
  I think the key is to just start somewhere. And the good news is, you've started here :) Best of luck!

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OO I think I'm going to add The Gifts of Imperfection to my reading queue. One I also suggest is Being Wrong by Kathryn Schulz. This book was really good and made some very good points about being wrong.

in a round about way

http://www.amazon.com/Being-Wrong-Adventures-Margin-Error/dp/0061176052/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1313209605&sr=8-2

Actually, it's the study of the opposite. We cannot prove anything. We can only disprove things. And things are "theory" until they are proven wrong. Being Wrong by Kathryn Shultz sums this all up nicely. That all of human science, up to our current scientific understanding is wrong.

Think about that for a moment. All science, up to our current understanding, is wrong. We have proven it wrong in order to come to a greater understanding, and there is nothing bad about it. It's just the way we progress.

Maybe one day we'll find a way to prove our theories. It's possible (though I highly doubt in my lifetime), but I wouldn't count on it - at least not until man is much more advanced. Even things like the higgs boson are only correct as long as the data is interpreted correctly and another more accurate explanation is not put forth.

So science is really all about the adventures in discovering falsehoods, not in discovering truth. It is about hypothesizing and coming up with theory, but not knowing any actual "facts" - just information that we have yet to prove wrong.

Remember - all of our prior scientific understanding, up until now, has been wrong.