Maria Popova on the Virtue of Being Willing to Look Foolish May 16, 2016 by Miles Kimball “… there are few things we resist more staunchly, to the detriment of our own growth, than looking foolish for being wrong. The courageous … trip and fall, often in public, but get right back up and leap again.” — Maria Popova, in the Brain Pickings blog post “The Gutsy Girl: A Modern Manifesto for Bravery, Perseverance, and Breaking the Tyranny of Perfection.”