Can You Be Wrong?
Are you able to accept that you might be wrong?
Hello everyone!
I know I’ve been a little quiet both in your email and on notes. A few ups and downs in life as often happens, and then a nasty cold (or allergies, I’m still not quite sure). But, even though I haven’t been writing, I have been reading and scrolling socials (never a good idea but it’s mindless when your mind can’t focus. And that brings me to this week’s article). And, you can also see a couple of my recent Substack picks below.
Enjoy!
~Suzanne
Can you be wrong?
Can others be wrong as well?
Are you able to accept that you might be wrong?
Are you ok with someone else being right?
Are you ok with someone else being wrong?
I’m asking these as rhetorical questions, but seriously sit with them and ask yourself these questions honestly.
Social media has brought us to a new level of being opinionated. Often we scroll through our newsfeed and if when we come across someone who believes differently from us, we have to comment. We have to make our (obviously correct) views known.
I am old enough to remember life before the internet. Heck, I remember life before cable TV and 24/7 news channels. We had the 6:00 and 10:00 news in the evening. We had “commentary” and feel good “good morning” shows at 8:00am.
Rarely was an opinion stated during these broadcasts unless it was specifically listed as an “op-Ed” piece. Facts were facts. Newspaper headlines, while often sensationalized, were still factual.
Opinion - noun - a view or judgment formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge.
We’ve grown into a society that cannot fathom being wrong. Being wrong is a personal affront. Even when we are discussing opinions, it seems only one side can be correct.
I invite you, the next time you are in a discussion or scrolling on social media and someone makes a statement that you don’t agree with, to take a moment and ask yourself a couple of questions:
Can their opinion be right for them and also not right for me?
Does it matter whether their opinion is different from mine?
Do I have to insert my opinion to “correct their thinking”?
Can I accept our differences and move forward?
What I’m Reading This Week
Here are some other ‘stacks that have caught my attention this week. Check them out and subscribe or share if you like what they have to say:
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