Certainty

by greycoopers

“Certainty can be very divisive. People have lost a bit of inquisitiveness and have got a bit too much certainty and they don’t listen to people as much as they should. And that is tearing apart our politics. What he (Barack) said about the book is that we are all like fish swimming around in a bowl and we don’t know what we don’t know and we all have these flaws and these problems and what we don’t want to do is to be arrogant towards other people who are still learning. He thought that my book captured that really well.”

Tara Westover (author of Educated) speaking about her conversation with Barack Obama – extracted from “How to Fail” podcast with Elizabeth Day, Season 2, Episode 7 14th November, 2018