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🗓️ 26 November 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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0:00.0 | Have you ever been in a heated discussion where you just knew you were right? |
0:09.1 | Like not just, oh, I'm pretty sure, but the kind of certainty that makes you want to say, |
0:14.8 | let me explain this slowly using small words so you can understand. |
0:20.9 | Now, now, now, none of us would ever think or talk like such a thing, |
0:26.2 | but when your blood pressure rises and you feel your heart racing |
0:30.2 | and all of the sudden, you're the topic of someone's dinner conversation. |
0:36.8 | Yeah, well, that was me the other day. |
0:39.6 | There I was, quote unquote, arguing over something really important, like whether |
0:45.4 | pineapple belongs on pizza, which no, it does not. |
0:49.6 | But I was so confident my perspective was the only logical one. You would have thought I had a PhD |
0:56.6 | and being right. Then, mid-rant, something hit me. What if? And this is a wild thought. |
1:06.9 | What if I'm wrong? It's a terrifying idea, isn't it? |
1:14.1 | The thought that your airtight arguments might have a few weeks. |
1:19.1 | But the more I sat with it, the more I realized how often we all get stuck in this trap, |
1:25.6 | this weird, self-satisfied certainty that everyone else is |
1:30.8 | wrong and we are the keeper of universal truths. So today we are talking about being wrong. I know, |
1:41.7 | I know, not exactly everyone's favorite topic, but what if being wrong isn't the |
1:48.7 | disaster that we make it out to be? What if it's actually a superpower? Yeah, hear me out. I mean, |
1:56.8 | think about it. Some of the best stories, the biggest breakthroughs, the most memorable laughs, |
2:03.8 | they often start with someone, usually me, being spectacularly wrong about something. |
2:12.4 | So we're going to explore the art of embracing our wrongness. |
2:20.9 | Because sometimes the best way to be right is it get comfortable with being wrong. |
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