Last Sunday, I was invited to speak at the Prairie Unitarian Universalist Church in Parker . My topic was the wise and extraordinarily well-written book Being Wrong , by Kathryn Schulz. My "sermon" (you may call me Reverend LaRue) doesn't quite follow her own fascinating structure. But here's the talk. How does it feel to be wrong? You say you feel sinful, lazy, stupid, foolish, inadequate. But you're wrong . It feels just like being right -- or (as Schulz says in her Ted talk ), it's like Wile E. Coyote running off the cliff in pursuit of the Roadrunner. At that moment, he does not feel wrong. It's only when the clouds of dust disappear and he realizes he's standing in space that he realizes he's wrong. And only then does he fall. Being Wrong and Childhood: The Sally Ann test Sally and Ann are in a room. Sally puts a candy bar in a basket, closes the lid, and leaves the room. Ann takes the candy bar out of the basket, and hides it i...