by Kathryn SchultzHere's a fascinating counterpoint to the notion that making a mistake somehow diminishes you as a person. We shouldn't fear error, the author says; rather, we should embrace it because it's our capacity for making mistakes that makes us who we are. ( To err is human isn't just an empty cliché.) Schulz explores the nature of error: are big mistakes fundamentally different from small mistakes, or are they all essentially the same? How much does peer pressure, or crowd response, affect our capacity to blunder? How and why do we remember relatively insignificant mistakes for the rest of our lives, long after they have ceased to be relevant to anything? And what role does error-blindness our inability to know when we are in the process of making a mistake play in our daily lives? Schulz writes in a lively style, asks lots of compelling questions, and uses plenty of examples to illustrate her points. Put this one in the same general category as Gladwell's Blink (2005), LeGault's Think! (2006), and Shore's Blunder (2008): user-friendly, entertaining looks at the way our minds work.
