“Both smart and clever, full of fun and surprise in regards to a topic so central to your lives that people almost never sometimes think about it.”

-Bill McKibben, author of Globe: Building a Life on a hardcore New Planet

In the tradition from the Wisdom of Crowds and Predictably Irrational comes Being Wrong, an illuminating exploration of what it means to be in error, and why homo sapiens tend to tacitly assume (or loudly insist) that they are right about most everything. Kathryn Schulz, editor of Grist newspaper, argues that mistake is the fundamental individual condition and should be celebrated therefore. Guiding the audience through the history and mindset of error, from Socrates to Alan Greenspan, Being Wrong changes how you perceive screw-ups, both from the mammoth and daily range, forever.