The Ego-Boosting Power of Admitting When You Are Wrong
Once you learn how to turn being wrong into a positive experience, you are making yourself free to grow and change as a person.
Being wrong is a fact of life.
It’s impossible to know everything. Even if you’re blessed with an eidetic or photographic memory and can recall everything you’ve ever seen or heard in your entire life, you’re not going to have had access to every fact that exists. Eventually, either somebody will know something you don’t or prove something you know is incorrect.
And no one likes being wrong. It sucks, and it feels humiliating. But it doesn’t have to. And if you can change your mindset to turn that feeling around, I promise your life is going to get exponentially better.
Why can’t you admit when you are wrong?
Why is it natural to get so defensive when someone proves you are wrong about something?
Well, in short, it’s all about ego.
For the longer answer, we need to explore the idea of Cognitive Dissonance. As explained by social psychologist Carol Tavris:
Cognitive dissonance is what we feel when the self-concept — I’m smart, I’m kind, I’m…
