Summary Of The Sad Beautiful Fact That We Re All Going To Miss Almost Everything

When too much information is given, usually one doesn’t know what to do with it. One cannot take everything and not get confused in the process. In Linda Holmes’ article “The Sad, Beautiful Fact that We’re All Going to Miss Almost Everything,” she states that being “well-read” can either mean knowing everything or making the effort to explore many different things. One is unable to know everything yet a lot of different things can still be learned making an individual well educated, and that is what Holmes wants the readers to understand. In Joe Keohane’s article “How Facts Backfire,” “backfire” and “misinformation” are some terms stated by Keohane that relate to each other giving that an individual is misinformed therefore facts will backfire
Every time that the people ignores facts, they miss an opportunity to gain knowledge and become informed individuals which can then help the people be more involved in many different aspects of every day life. Our beliefs play a big role in the problem because depending on what the people thinks is right, that is what they would abide by, and anything that goes against those beliefs would be wrong in their point of view. Keohane argues “there is a substantial body of psychological research showing that people tend to interpret information with an eye toward reinforcing their preexisting views. If we believe something about the world, we are more likely to passively accept as truth any information that confirms our beliefs and actively dismiss information that doesn’t.” We look at things differently depending on our beliefs. If the people listened to other facts and forget about their beliefs for a little bit, so much more could be learned. The people are blinded by their beliefs and that backfires them in the way that they are not gaining new information yet they still argue that their beliefs are