I never thought it would be such a relief to be wrong but I’m starting to love it. Ahhhh!
Does that statement surprise you when there are so many success texts on how to be, or do things, ‘right’?
Good!
Do you know the pressure of feeling you have to be right? Do you know what it’s like to not be able to stand being wrong? It’s not pleasant!
Maybe YOU don’t but I bet you know someone like that. Someone who has to have the last word!
It might be funny for a few minutes but ultimately it’s annoying. And destructive.
Being unable to admit you are wrong is what I call a ‘psychological knot’. Creating greater openness and being welcome to ‘get it wrong’ can untie you for greater success!
A pastor I know said: “I’m scared of a man who can’t admit he’s wrong.” Hitler, for example, was that man at one point. Even when everything was going wrong at the end of the Second World War, the films portray his lieutenants saying: “He hasn’t led us wrong before. We should trust him.” Yeah, that worked out. Confidence does not equal correctness!
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