Be comfortable with being wrong
It's right to be wrong
I have worked with so many entrepreneurs, business people and friends generally who dread being wrong. And that’s ok, it’s just human instinct.
The problem with this instinct is that you stop being creative and fit yourself into a box - the traditional way of thinking.
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When you free yourself from being wrong, anything becomes possible. You begin to see things in ways others struggle to see. You stop being afraid of contributing your ideas or speaking up.
Over the years, every person who has worked with/for me remembers me saying “you must have an opinion, speak up”. Something I’m grateful I learned from working with Parminder Vir OBE. This often goes against our typical African upbringing that encourages going with the flow, avoiding upsetting authority, and not sharing our thoughts.
How to begin your journey of ‘being wrong’:
Ask yourself - is there room for more than one truth? Two or more things can be true at the same time.
What are you hoping to get out of this? Is it your ego, the need to appear right, or your need to birth a solution?
Don’t try to immediately point out someone is wrong without carefully thinking about it. Life is not a game show where you get extra points for shutting people down.
Say it, speak up! How else will anyone know your ideas (right or wrong) if you don’t share them?
Document your ideas and review them from time to time. You’ll notice that the more you review these ideas, the more refined they become. Also, have you ever looked through some old ideas and were surprised at how smart they were? This happens to me a lot. Unfortunately, at the time of birthing the idea, I shut them down thinking they weren’t useful - Don’t be me!
Life is a risk and people who take the risk of ‘being wrong’ more often end up having more.