Let’s face it. It’s much more fun to be right.  Kathryn Schulz, author of "Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error" found that humans love to be right. And, many people go through life assuming they are right all the time, about everything…political issues, religious beliefs, their assessment of people, facts and figures, and so on. You know who I’m talking about.

Crazy as it sounds, our default setting is to assume we are close to omniscient. Because being wrong can leave us feeling stupid, embarrassed and deflated. 
 
But Schulz’s research proved that we are all wrong about what it means to be wrong. Instead of a sign of intellectual inferiority, the capacity to err is crucial to understanding and perception. Being wrong allows us to learn and change for the better, revise our view of ourselves and adjust our thinking. It is directly linked to our ability to demonstrate feelings like compassion and empathy, build relationships and help others. Certainly nothing wrong about that.

As Benjamin Franklin once observed, "the history of the errors of mankind, all things considered, is more valuable and interesting than that of their discoveries." Through our errors, he felt, "the soul has room enough to expand herself, to display all her boundless faculties, and all her beautiful and interesting extravagancies and absurdities."