The Gift of Being Wrong

How to make being wrong a teachable moment.

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There is so much fear around being wrong. People lose jobs because of it. Companies discourage people from being wrong. New employees are afraid of it. People tiptoe around it.

But does being wrong help us grow and look at ourselves from a new vantage point?

Why is it that so many people are unwilling to be wrong?

The worst part about being wrong is having to defend ourselves when we don’t want to admit we were wrong. You have seen this in business. People shift the blame to someone else.

What value can we get out of owning our mistakes? Admitting we did something wrong is a much more powerful place to stand than trying to defend ourselves or blaming others.

The office jerk is the one who thinks he is always right.

The office sage continually sees himself as fallible and goes to work to discover what he might have missed.

There is freedom in owning when you are wrong.

Being wrong is not about morals or competition, it’s about owning it when you know you weren’t…