February 22, 2014.

"A couple of years ago, a woman comes into Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre for a surgery. Beth Israel's in Boston. It's the teaching hospital for Harvard- one of the best hospitals in the country. So this woman comes in and she's taken into the operating room. She's anesthetized, the surgeon does his thing- stitches her back up, sends her out to the recovery room. Everything seems to have gone fine. And she wakes up, and she looks down at herself, and she says, "Why is the wrong side of my body in bandages?" Well the wrong side of her body is in bandages because the surgeon has performed a major operation on her left leg instead of her right one. When the vice president for health care quality at Beth Israel spoke about this incident, he said something very interesting. He said, "For whatever reason, the surgeon simply felt that he was on the correct side of the patient."

"This internal sense of rightness that we all experience so often is not reliable guide to what is actually going on in the external world."

- TED talk given by Kathryn Schulz 'On Being Wrong'

-

Abstract appreciation of fallibility. Feeling of rightness, ultimately leading to error blindness. It's important to share and run ideas with peers and professors. Along with in-depth research on abstract ideas.