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

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