Adding on to my last post about courage there is one particular area where if you have the courage to accept ridicule, regret and pain, for the good of those you love and improving yourself.
It’s the courage to admit when you are wrong.
We all base our decisions of how we rate the reliability of the source, information received and our instincts. But sometimes you gain more information that expands or conflicts with your existing information, its your responsibility to investigate further.
Most people will disregard information that conflicts with their previous knowledge. Our minds can not really cope with being wrong, we are truth finding machines. As proof, is there anything in your mind now that is wrong. Everything in your mind is correct, even if it’s I have this piece of information although I know its incorrect. Everything is a balanced equation. So when we want to accept something new, that is conflicting of something we know, its hard to accept. Why, I’m not sure. It’s easy to learn something new as it will not conflict with anything previous.
This becomes particularly hard to accept if it means you have to accept you did something wrong, especially to a loved one such as a child, such as my previous post when I left my first born to cry in a dark room at night when he was going to bed. But if you choose to accept it, admit you did something wrong, you have the ability to do the right thing in the future.
Staying with something you suspect may be wrong just so you don’t have to admit you did something wrong, doesn’t let you grow and only helps other people feel more comfortable staying where they are. To grow as a person and do good in the world, you must learn to accept you might be wrong some of the time. Having the courage to admit you are wrong and grow as a person is an admirable trait, even if others might not see it. (They just don’t want to accept they are wrong 
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