Dies ist eine alte Version des Dokuments!
DarkHorse Podcast: Episode 14 - Virus Derangement Syndrome
- Veröffentlicht am: 12.05.2020
- Beteiligte: Bret Weinstein, Heather Heying
- Themen: Fehlerkultur; Humor; Sozial-Bindung; Befähigung zum rationalen, klaren Denken
Transkript
[As a professor being asked by students for „live advice“:] Don't even consider marrying anybody who doesn't have a sense of humor about themselves. They're just not marriage material - which […] is a upsetting problem because there are a lot of people in that category and it's sad to think that they may not be appropiate for a relationship.
[…]
One thing you can tell very frequently what kind of person someone is, based on how they deal with the discovery that they have been incorrect.
One thing you can do is: you can rationalize and sweep it under the rug and pretend it didn't happen - now you're wrong twice! Not only were you wrong the first time but your claim to have always been in the position you now hold is also wrong.
That is now a indication of character.
[…]
I would very much like to be right. I don't like dicovering that I'm wrong and doing it in front of a large audience is very difficult, but the point is: Wow, is it a better deal than sticking with some wrong position, so it's not to admit that you made an error - which is of course human.