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Also by Leah Hager Cohen:

Strangers and Cousins, May 2020
Trade Size / e-Book (reprint)
No Book but the World, April 2014
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I Don't Know, January 2013
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I DON'T KNOW
By: Leah Hager Cohen

In Praise of Admitting Ignorance (Except When You Shouldn't)

Riverhead
January 2013
On Sale: January 5, 2013
128 pages
ISBN: 1594632391
EAN: 9781594632396
Kindle: B00DQV7QV6
Hardcover / e-Book
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Self-Help

A short, concise book in favor of honoring doubt and admitting when the answer is: I don’t know.

In a tight, enlightening narrative, Leah Hager Cohen explores why, so often, we attempt to hide our ignorance, and why, in so many different areas, we would be better off coming clean. Weaving entertaining, anecdotal reporting with eye-opening research, she considers both the ramifications of and alternatives to this ubiquitous habit in arenas as varied as education, finance, medicine, politics, warfare, trial courts, and climate change. But it’s more than just encouraging readers to confess their ignorance—Cohen proposes that we have much to gain by embracing uncertainty. Three little words can in fact liberate and empower, and increase the possibilities for true communication. So much becomes possible when we honor doubt.

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Morning Edition - September 17, 2013