Jonah Lehrer Gets 20 Thousand; Tim Tebow Goes Anti-Gay; Obnoxious Self-Promotion

Jonah Lehrer who was caught plagiarizing last year was recently paid the sum of $20,000 by the Knight Foundation to speak on some of the bad decisions he's made, and also on the topic of failure.

Reaction has been uniformly negative, with pointed posts in the New York Times , Forbes and Los Angeles Magazine . But while I don’t necessarily disagree with such commentary, I also think it misses the point.

I have also seen these negative reactions everywhere, not just in the mainstrea...