Being Wrong

Kathryn Schulz’s Perspective on Being Right or Wrong

Kathryn Schulz uses a personal analogy to illustrate the concept of being right or wrong on what people believe in. In her appearance at the Ted Talks show in 2011, Kathryn states why people’s beliefs can be incorrect. Only because everything is right and is what people believe in does not make the thought or writing incorrectly. Kathryn frequently tries to defend wrongdoing, claiming that being false does not imply loss. She states that an idea or a theory may be right or wrong; whether we believe in it, it is right; if we do not believe in it, it is wrong. Kathryn believes that everyone has a reason for what they believe in and that they stick to their believe because they do not have the evidence of it being wrong. The aim of her presentation is to discourage judging people the reference of the judgment could be wrong too.

Agreeing with Kathryn’s Thoughts on Freedom

I agree with some of the Kathryn thoughts about the freedom of being free from strict-rightness and the need of emancipating yourself from being bound by being right. The fear of losing, failing or being wrong is the biggest obstacle of succeeding in life because the future is always uncertain to everybody. To be successful one has to eliminate all the wrong notions by first believing in them. Therefore, being unknowingly wrong is a characteristic of every human being, and it is the process of knowing what is right.

Disagreeing with Kathryn’s Perception on Idea and Action

In her presentation, Kathryn leaves room for every action or idea being right or wrong. She does not believe that an idea could be wrong in the first place irrespective of the owner of the idea seeing it as a good idea. I disagree with Kathryn in this perception because a person could knowingly be wrong but proceed with their idea or action because it serves their best interest. For instance, a leader who allows pollution to increase economic growth through industrialization is doing wrong intentionally. Those employees who uphold this wrong do not need to discover whether their actions are right or wrong. My idea is being wrong should be the same as being uncertain. Therefore, rightness should always dominate, but it should be uncertain too.

Work Cited

Schulz, Kathryn.“On Being Wrong.” YouTube, uploaded by TED Talk, 26 April 2011, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QleRgTBMX88