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Kathryn Schulz [0-0] American

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Journalist

Kathryn Schulz is an American journalist and author, and the former book critic for New York magazine. She joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 2015.

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We're terrified of not having the answers, and we would sometimes rather assert an incorrect answer than make our peace with the fact that we really don't know.	Peace	101
The point isn't to live without any regrets. The point is to not hate ourselves for having them.		102
Regret doesn't remind us that we did badly. It reminds us that we know we can do better.		103
Parading our own brilliance and exulting in other people's errors is not very nice. For that matter, even wanting to parade our own brilliance and exult in other people's errors is not very nice, although it is certainly very human.		104
The kinds of things that we can make mistakes about are essentially unlimited in number.		105
The miracle of your mind isn't that you can see the world as it is. It's that you can see the world as it isn't.		106
I can usually find my own way out of whatever dicey literary or linguistic situations I wander into, but I have to work much harder at the science.		107
If you want to live a life free of regret, there is an option open to you. It's called a lobotomy.		108
If it is sweet to be right, then - let's not deny it - it is downright savory to point out that someone else is wrong.		109
As a kid, I lived almost entirely inside books, and eventually the books started returning the favor. A lot of my internal world feels like an anthology, or a library. It's eclectic and disorganized, but I can browse in it, and that hugely shapes both what and how I write.		110
First, philosophy concerns itself with all kinds of issues that don't get much airtime in day-to-day life. What's the nature of reality? Can we ever truly know anything, and if so, how? What does it mean to be a moral agent? And while we're at it, is there any such thing as agency anyway?		111

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