Growing By Admitting You Are Wrong
Tuesday, September 1st, 2009Following on from one of my previous posts You Know You Should But You Still Don’t I asked the question on why people don’t follow through.
Well the universe was listening once again and tony robbins created a few videos on why people don’t always follow through, which was extermely enlightening, as is most of what tony says. http://tonyrobbinstraining.com/320/interview-with-frank-kern-and-john-reese/
I will go through those videos in my next post but I also wanted to touch on something that I still think will prevent most people from following through. And that is the ability to admit when their information about a subject is wrong.
For some people it is extermely hard to even get them to listen to such advice as is offered above. The things that can stop new ideas and teachings from being accepted include
- Pride (normally the biggest, and especially prevalent in an argument)
- They trust their source of information too much that they couldn’t possibly be wrong
- It may mean they have to accept they have done something bad or awful to a loved one or friend
It is OK to be wrong. Admit it and move on or be stuck in your false reality forever more. I have been proven wrong many times and as much as it sometimes pains me to admit it to friends or family I do. I have even admitted I was wrong on an occasion where I had to accept I did the wrong thing by my son. But now I can ensure I don’t do it again in the future to other children I may have and that I will not redo it again to my son.
So my advice, get over any pride issues you may have, be open to EVERY idea no matter how absurd in your mind it sounds and listen carefully to everything that is given to you. And by absurd I even mean if someone says “if you jump off the effiel tower you get transported back in time 30 minutes” even listen to that. Don’t try it out obviously, but think it out and listen to the person saying it. They may be correct. And who knows you may be travelling back in time 30 minutes next week or listening to someone who tells you how to make a million dollars and actually doing it.