But there’s something else, too, that we miss out on if we decline to honor our fallibility. I have written, in this chapter, about the importance of acknowledging our mistakes primarily as a way to prevent them. Sometimes, though, accepting wrongness is not a means to an end, but an end in itself. By way of conclusion, then, I want to turn to a very different reason to embrace error: not for the purpose of eliminating it, but for the pleasure of experiencing it.
