Some people are mistaken about mistakes [Article]

Worried about making mistakes? Don’t. As Dan Dennett writes in this book, Intuition pumps,

I am amazed at how many really smart people don’t understand that you can make big mistakes in public and emerge none the worse for it…Actually, people love it when somebody admits to making a mistake. 

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