Why I love being wrong...

We’re taught being wrong is a negative thing, through the grading system in school, and even the workplace. If you get something wrong on a test you get your grade and that’s that. Most teachers won’t let you retake the test even though you just learned from your mistake! You get something wrong at work and you’ll have a strong chance of losing your job. I recently discovered how much I love being wrong. Our ego’s seem to avoid this at all costs, and once I became aware of this, it made me appreciate ignorance. If we had all the answers life would be boring. Learning, growing, experiencing is the reason life can be exciting. But we think we know it all. Once we’re out of school we rarely take the time to learn, as if school taught everything we needed to know. Imagine a circle representing the amount of knowledge you have, and the circumference of this circle is the amount of knowledge you are ready to learn. The bigger your circle of knowledge gets, the bigger the circumference of ignorance is. Meaning, life never gets boring, you’ll never have all the answers and that is a beautiful thing! We can fill up the years of our lives with experience and it never has to slow down. I was told by a 50 year guy that he just had the greatest summer of his life! I am 19, are you telling me the greatest summer of my life will not happen for potentially 31 years?! That excites the shit out of me so I decided to talk about why I love being wrong, and how becoming curious rather than a “know-it-all” is much more exciting. The ego would rather be right than happy or at peace This might actually blow your mind because you may have done this at one point in your life. Basically if your ego firmly believed that it needed a new house to be happy, no matter what else comes in to your life, you will still be unhappy. Could be a new car, a promotion, but it’s not that new house that seems to be the deciding factor of your happiness. Because otherwise you would be proven wrong, I hope this makes sense. A good friend of mine years ago was diagnosed with depression. She was prescribed medication which helped sometimes, but most of the time it made her lose her appetite and she became lazy and unmotivated, she was no longer depressed, she was simply empty of emotion. I told her that she does not need to take these meds, that there’s another way, there’s always a way. Whether it be through environment, change of circumstance or getting rid of this ego that always wants more and is never satisfied. Despite my trying to reason she simply denied any possibility of recovery without her medication. She had a strong belief that she had a incurable mental illness that would plague her for the rest of her life. Me trying to change this belief is like talking to a brick wall. Her ego would rather be right than take the advice and possibly create real long term happiness in her life. Henry Ford said it very clearly “Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t — you’re right."

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