David Samuels (b. 1967)
Journalist, essayist
The doctrinaire scoundrel will give no credence to this nagging insight from David Samuels, a careful and persuasive writer whose work you may have seen in The New Yorker.
Chew on it for a sec…yup, sure enough, think back over your past years, remember when you suddenly realized you were wrong about something? You know it's going to happen again, probably soon, and probably not just once more…
Being open to this prospect is maybe even healthier than eating right and getting regular exercise…
Winston Churchill said "The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes." Maybe that's the second best lesson.
The best lesson may be that it's real smart to be ready to admit "I'm wrong" whenever that turns out to be the right thing to say…..anyway, that frame of mind will sharpen your capacity to understand and defend what you believe is right.
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