Jun 18, 2021

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The Gift of Being Wrong

How to make being wrong a teachable moment.

A young blonde woman is holding her hand up in the air as if she is telling the young woman next to her to stop. The blonde woman is rolling her eyes to the left and the dark haired woman looks straight at the camera and looks annoyed. — Photo by Obie Fernandez on Unsplash

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?

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writer and sometimes singer/composer & painter. Italian-American. INFP. I write fiction and nonfiction. www.kellyburns.com

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