It is so easy to be wrong—and to persist in being wrong—when the costs of being wrong are paid by others.

Quote of the Week 32

"It is so easy to be wrong—and to persist in being wrong—when the costs of being wrong are paid by others."
― Thomas Sowell



Triggered by the use of the quote in David Didau's presentation "What if everything you knew about mindsets and resilience was wrong?" (last slide) where he criticises Carol Dweck's work on the "Mindset" topic (as manifested in her repetitive book).

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