The Upside of Being Confused
The Brian Lehrer Show | Oct 20, 2015
Jamie Holmes, a Future Tense Fellow at New America, former research coordinator at Harvard University in the department of economics, and the author of Nonsense: The Power of Not Knowing (Crown, 2015), says while we're hard-wired to pick a side, in a complex time, being able to handle ambiguity is an important skill.
→Take the "ambiguity quiz" from Nonsense here.Â
How to handle ambiguity: make pro/con lists with consequences, read fiction, seek multicultural experiences. -Holmes pic.twitter.com/PJjdmWOgws
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