The bestselling history of and investigation into human error by beloved
New Yorker
writer Kathryn Schulz
“Both wise and clever, full of fun and surprise about a topic so central to our lives that we almost never even think about it.”
—Bill McKibben, author of
Earth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet
In the tradition of
The Wisdom of Crowds
and
Predictably Irrational, Being Wrong
explores what it means to be in error, and why homo sapiens tend to tacitly assume (or loudly insist) that they are right about most everything. Kathryn Schulz argues that error is
the
fundamental human condition and should be celebrated as such. Guiding the reader through the history and psychology of error, from Socrates to Alan Greenspan,
Being Wrong
will change the way you perceive screw-ups, both of the mammoth and daily variety, forever.