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Kathryn Schulz is an American journalist and author, and the former book critic for New York magazine. She joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 2015. Schulz won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for her New Yorker article on a potential large earthquake in the Pacific Northwest.

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To err is to wander, and wandering is the way we discover the world; and, lost in thought, it is also the way we discover ourselves. Being right might be gratifying, but in the end it is static, a mere statement. Being wrong is hard and humbling, and sometimes even dangerous, but in the end it is a journey, and a story.

Dangerous, Humbling, Journey, Stories, Wander, World

The miracle of your mind isn't that you can see the world as it is. It's that you can see the world as it isn't.

Inspiration, Mind, Miracle, Motivation, See, World

both doubt and certainty are as contagious as the common cold

Doubt, Common, Cold, Contagious

I can usually find my own way out of whatever dicey literary or linguistic situations I wander into, but I have to work much harder at the science.

Science, Situation, Wander, Way

If we have goals and dreams and we want to do our best, and if we love people and we don’t want to hurt them or lose them, we should feel pain when things go wrong. The point isn’t to live without any regrets, the point is to not hate ourselves for having them… We need to learn to love the flawed, imperfect things that we create, and to forgive ourselves for creating them. Regret doesn’t remind us that we did badly — it reminds us that we know we can do better.

Create, Dream, Forgive, Hurt, Lose, Regret

And to me, if you really want to rediscover wonder, you need to step outside of that tiny, terrified space of rightness and look around at each other and look out at the vastness and complexity and mystery of the universe and be able to say, “Wow, I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong.

Looks, Needs, Space, Step, Terrified, Wonder

If you Google 'regret and tattoo,' you will get 11. 5 million hits.

Google, Hits, Regret, Tattoo

Your own regrets may not be as ugly as you think they are.

Regret, Regrets, Think, Thinking, Ugly

Wow. I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong.

Know, Knows, Mistake, Wow, Wrong

Regret doesn't remind us that we did badly, it reminds us that we know that we could do better.

Know, Letting Go, Past, Regret, Remind, Reminds

wrongness always seems to come at us from left field - that is, from outside ourselves. But the reality could hardly be more different. Error is the ultimate inside job. Yes, the world can be profoundly confusing; and yes, other people can mislead or deceive you. In the end, though, nobody but you can choose to believe your own beliefs.

Beliefs, Believe, Jobs, Reality, World

without being sure of something, we can not begin to think about everything elses

Begin, Can Not, Elses, Everything, Think, Thinking

I had drunk our great cultural Kool-Aid about regret, which is that lamenting things that occurred in the past is an absolute waste of time, that we should always look forward and not backward, and that one of the noblest and best things we can do is strive to live a life free of regrets.

Backward, Forward, Inspiration, Motivation, Regret, Waste

Unlike earlier thinkers, who had sought to improve their accuracy by getting rid of error, Laplace realized that you should try to get more error: aggregate enough flawed data, and you get a glimpse of the truth. "The genius of statistics, as Laplace defined it, was that it did not ignore errors; it quantified them," the writer Louis Menand observed. ". . . The right answer is, in a sense, a function of the mistakes.

Data, Enough, Errors, Mistake, Thinkers

Of all the things we are wrong about, error might well top the list. . . We are wrong about what it means to be wrong. Far from being a sign of intellectual inferiority, the capacity to err is crucial to human cognition. Far from being a moral flaw, it is inextricable from some of our most humane and honourable qualities: empathy, optimism, imagination, conviction, and courage. And far from being a mark of indifference or intolerance, wrongness is a vital part of how we learn and change. Thanks to error, we can revise our understanding of ourselves and amend our ideas about the world.

Conviction, Errors, Ideas, Learn, Mean, World

The point isn’t to live without any regrets. The point is to not hate ourselves for having them.

Hate, Having, Live, Point, Regret, Regrets

We're terrified of not having the answers, and we would sometimes rather assert an incorrect answer than make our peace with the fact that we really don't know.

Answers, Facts, Know, Make, Sometimes, Terrified

Error. . . is less an intellectual problem than an existential one - a crisis not in what we know, but in who we are. We hear something of that identity crisis in the questions we ask ourselves in the aftemath of error: What was I thinking? How could I have done that?

Crisis, Errors, Hear, Intellectual, Problem, Thinking

If it is sweet to be right, then - let's not deny it - it is downright savory to point out that someone else is wrong.

Deny, Savory, Sweet

If you want to live a life free of regret, there is an option open to you. It's called a lobotomy.

Inspiration, Life, Motivation, Open, Option, Regret

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