{"id":259,"date":"2025-10-17T09:37:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T07:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandrock.co.za\/carl\/?p=259"},"modified":"2025-10-17T09:37:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T07:37:11","slug":"being-wrong-feels-just-like-being-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandrock.co.za\/carl\/2025\/10\/being-wrong-feels-just-like-being-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Being wrong feels just like being right"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is one of the most powerful mantras in my life. Like many people I started out believing that I have an innate sense that would tell me if there is a chance that one of my beliefs are wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m not just talking about the big-picture beliefs like religion or morals here: My most vivid example is showing up a week early to my best friends wedding. You see I had been so sure of the date that I didn&#8217;t think to double-check the invite that was stuck to my fridge with a magnet, even as I dressed and drove 40 minutes to the wedding venue. It&#8217;s only when I realised none of the people in the church were familiar that the penny dropped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once I understood that I could be completely sure while also being completely wrong, I started trying to understand how to introduce the correct uncertainty into my systems. I started keeping track of my bets, and I try to avoid expressing absolute certainty. But of course, when you&#8217;re sure you don&#8217;t try to do those things, and it would be crippling if you questioned every single moment of every day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So also have some sympathy for yourself and others when you inevitably make mistakes that you had no warning about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I learned a lot about this idea of certainty from Kathryn Schults&#8217; work. This TED video sums it up pretty well, but I encourage you to read more about this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"On being wrong | Kathryn Schulz\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QleRgTBMX88?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of the most powerful mantras in my life. Like many people I started out believing that I have an innate sense that would tell me if there is a chance that one of my beliefs are wrong. I&#8217;m not just talking about the big-picture beliefs like religion or morals here: My most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandrock.co.za\/carl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandrock.co.za\/carl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandrock.co.za\/carl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandrock.co.za\/carl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandrock.co.za\/carl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandrock.co.za\/carl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260,"href":"https:\/\/sandrock.co.za\/carl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions\/260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandrock.co.za\/carl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandrock.co.za\/carl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandrock.co.za\/carl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}