It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” (Mark Twain or Will Rogers)
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In your own words, what is the main idea of the very famous and witty quote above?
“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” (Albert Einstein)
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Getting Personal
How confident are you about the accuracy of the information you read about in the newspapers, on social media, or hear about on TV?
How willing are you to change a personal opinion if you are confronted with information that contradicts the validity of that opinion?
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INSIGHTS for SUCCESS
“Never underestimate the difficulty of changing false beliefs by facts.” (Henry Rosovsky)
The truth value of our beliefs is an often neglected issue, and yet another often neglected issue is our willingness to periodically evaluate selective beliefs, and then to modify them if they become known to be false.
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