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Not sure where I read, maybe Nonviolent Communication or somewhere else, paraphrased - "Being right feels the same as being wrong". Think about hundreds of year
by a_c 8y ago
Not sure where I read, maybe Nonviolent Communication or somewhere else, paraphrased - "Being right feels the same as being wrong". Think about hundreds of years ago where people debate about whether the earth is flat, either side truly believed they were right, even though one clearly wasn't
- jmcqk6 8y ago> "Being right feels the same as being wrong". From the book "Being Wrong" by Kathryn Schulz. I highly recommend it!
- tialaramex 8y agoNo. They didn't. People who actually thought about this tended to pretty quickly figure out that the only shape that works is the globe, a big ball. They estimated how big it was. The ancient Greek estimates are pretty good. The result was disheartening if your employer was an emperor because the globe was much bigger than their empire. Still, you could point out that maybe most of it is just ocean. Most people didn't think about it at all. Seriously insisting that you believe the Earth is flat, generally as part of some larger grand conspiracy theory, is a modern phenomenon.
- ggggtez 8y ago>hundreds of years ago This debate is (somehow) still raging, in case you didn't know.