Kathryn Schulz
Kathryn Schulz
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. Schulz won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for feature reporting for her New Yorker article on a potential large earthquake in the Pacific Northwest...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
CountryUnited States of America
almost both browse eclectic entirely eventually feels hugely inside internal lived shapes
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.
reminds
Regret doesn't remind us that we did badly. It reminds us that we know we can do better.
mistake wow knows
Wow. I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong.
regret thinking ugly
Your own regrets may not be as ugly as you think they are.
dream hurt pain
If we have goals and dreams and we want to do our best, and if we love people and we don’t want to hurt them or lose them, we should feel pain when things go wrong. The point isn’t to live without any regrets, the point is to not hate ourselves for having them… We need to learn to love the flawed, imperfect things that we create, and to forgive ourselves for creating them. Regret doesn’t remind us that we did badly — it reminds us that we know we can do better.
nice errors people
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.
philosophy mean reality
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?
mean ideas errors
Of all the things we are wrong about, error might well top the list ... We are wrong about what it means to be wrong. Far from being a sign of intellectual inferiority, the capacity to err is crucial to human cognition. Far from being a moral flaw, it is inextricable from some of our most humane and honourable qualities: empathy, optimism, imagination, conviction, and courage. And far from being a mark of indifference or intolerance, wrongness is a vital part of how we learn and change. Thanks to error, we can revise our understanding of ourselves and amend our ideas about the world.
motivation regret inspiration
Thirty-three percent of all of our regrets pertain to decisions we made about education.
tattoo regret google
If you Google 'regret and tattoo,' you will get 11.5 million hits.
regret past knows
Regret doesn't remind us that we did badly, it reminds us that we know that we could do better.
doubt common cold
both doubt and certainty are as contagious as the common cold
jobs believe reality
wrongness always seems to come at us from left field - that is, from outside ourselves. But the reality could hardly be more different. Error is the ultimate inside job. Yes, the world can be profoundly confusing; and yes, other people can mislead or deceive you. In the end, though, nobody but you can choose to believe your own beliefs.
mistake numbers kind
The kinds of things that we can make mistakes about are essentially unlimited in number.