Hello, this is Danny Lennon and you are listening to another special mini episode of Sigma Nutrition Radio.

For this one, I just wanted to talk out loud about something I've been mulling over in my head

recently. And I'm going to phrase it as the best way to be wrong. And I think there's a related

issue in here as well of a right and wrong way to

criticize someone and their information, which I'll kind of hopefully circle back to. And I'll probably

get a transcript done up of this just in case I do say anything good or something that's useful to

you. And I'll post that in the show notes at sigmautrition.com slash episode one, one, two.

So let's kind of jump in.

I think to start when I think of this idea of the best way to be wrong,

we often see being wrong as something inherently bad,

something to avoid, something that signifies

that we should be embarrassed. We don't want to be wrong. We want to be right. We would like to think

that everything we say and every action we carry out are correct. And we don't want to give others

the possibility even of criticizing us. And sure,

trying to be correct is great. But what if striving to never be wrong actually backfires.

What if striving to never be wrong gets us stuck in place, motionless, actionless.

That is a real possibility because here's the thing.

Anything we ever say or believe can only ever be based on our current best thought on that issue.

But our thinking is dynamic. It evolves, It expands. It filters out ideas and concepts,

whilst embracing new and better ones. Or at least that's the way our thought process and knowledge

base should operate. But if you're so scared of being wrong, then you won't actually say anything, and anything

you do say will be extremely conservative.

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