There is humility in being wrong. Our ego-minds are inclined to constantly prove that we are right. We can spend our whole lives making everyone and everything else wrong to prove how right we are. The weather isn’t good, the traffic is bad, the people aren’t behaving well, our body hurts and is betraying us. On and on it goes all day long and we get to be right and “they” get to be wrong.
The problem with this non-stop desire to be right is that is does not lead to happiness. Yes, we are right. Very right. The weather is icy and cold. We get to be better than the weather by being correct and it is wrong. This is really very funny when you think of it. But that is the automatic-pilot nature of the ego mind.
So if you can say, “I am wrong. I made a mistake,” that shows you have risen above the automatic tendency of the ego-mind to always be right. Instead of showing weakness, you are showing strength. And then again, maybe a mistake is not a mistake after all. Thomas Edison said, after 10,000 failed attempts at creating the light bulb, “I haven’t failed. I just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
The problem with this non-stop desire to be right is that is does not lead to happiness. Yes, we are right. Very right. The weather is icy and cold. We get to be better than the weather by being correct and it is wrong. This is really very funny when you think of it. But that is the automatic-pilot nature of the ego mind.
So if you can say, “I am wrong. I made a mistake,” that shows you have risen above the automatic tendency of the ego-mind to always be right. Instead of showing weakness, you are showing strength. And then again, maybe a mistake is not a mistake after all. Thomas Edison said, after 10,000 failed attempts at creating the light bulb, “I haven’t failed. I just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
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