We all come across times where we are wrong, some of us more often than others. For most of us the immediate response to being wrong is angry, frustrated or embarrassed. Kathryn Schulz explains that being wrong isn't exactly a bad thing.
Schulz is in a car with her friend going on a road trip when she begins seeing a sign which she thought had a Chinese character on it. What Schulz saw wasn't a Chinese character, but a symbol for picnic area. Schulz has spent that last five years of her life studying moments like these. "But just being wrong doesn't feel like anything" says Schulz. It's realizing that you're wrong is when you start feeling embarrassed, frustrated or angry. When people disagree with us we go into a "series of unfortunate assumptions". One of the assumptions is that we just assume the person is ignorant, we think that "when we generously share that information with them, they're gonna see the light and come on over to our team" says Schulz, and when that doesn't work we assume other things. But in the end if you really want to discover something great you need to step out of that terrifying feeling of being wrong, look around you and say "Wow, I don't know, maby I'm wrong".
During this talk I realized many things. Of course I knew the majority of people, including myself don't fancy being wrong. However, I realized that anyone can tell you you're wrong, but it's not upsetting until you begin to think you're wrong. Even then we combat this by using our own verbal defense mechanisms on the fear of everyone noticing you're wrong. When people disagree with us, of course many of us understand that we all have different opinions, but even then we still don't understand how someone couldn't agree with us, when really this can help shape our thoughts and feelings. This talk expressed that being wrong can be a good thing and nothing we should try to avoid or fight against. I never thought that in order to find wonders you need to realize you're wrong and then step onto the right path to achieve anything.
Everything you say or do has the ability to be wrong or right to you and many people. We all have different ideas and opinions that can be great, empowering and right to one person but can clash with someone else's idea, however that person isn't necessarily wrong. We need to start realizing that this isn't a bad thing and can help set us on the track to success. I recommend this video to anyone interested on learning the idea behind being wrong.
http://www.ted.com/talks/kathryn_schulz_on_being_wrong
Schulz is in a car with her friend going on a road trip when she begins seeing a sign which she thought had a Chinese character on it. What Schulz saw wasn't a Chinese character, but a symbol for picnic area. Schulz has spent that last five years of her life studying moments like these. "But just being wrong doesn't feel like anything" says Schulz. It's realizing that you're wrong is when you start feeling embarrassed, frustrated or angry. When people disagree with us we go into a "series of unfortunate assumptions". One of the assumptions is that we just assume the person is ignorant, we think that "when we generously share that information with them, they're gonna see the light and come on over to our team" says Schulz, and when that doesn't work we assume other things. But in the end if you really want to discover something great you need to step out of that terrifying feeling of being wrong, look around you and say "Wow, I don't know, maby I'm wrong".
During this talk I realized many things. Of course I knew the majority of people, including myself don't fancy being wrong. However, I realized that anyone can tell you you're wrong, but it's not upsetting until you begin to think you're wrong. Even then we combat this by using our own verbal defense mechanisms on the fear of everyone noticing you're wrong. When people disagree with us, of course many of us understand that we all have different opinions, but even then we still don't understand how someone couldn't agree with us, when really this can help shape our thoughts and feelings. This talk expressed that being wrong can be a good thing and nothing we should try to avoid or fight against. I never thought that in order to find wonders you need to realize you're wrong and then step onto the right path to achieve anything.
Everything you say or do has the ability to be wrong or right to you and many people. We all have different ideas and opinions that can be great, empowering and right to one person but can clash with someone else's idea, however that person isn't necessarily wrong. We need to start realizing that this isn't a bad thing and can help set us on the track to success. I recommend this video to anyone interested on learning the idea behind being wrong.
http://www.ted.com/talks/kathryn_schulz_on_being_wrong