Feeling Right

By | October 18, 2015

We all misunderstand things of one sort or another. We all come to wrong conclusions and change our minds sometime later in life (hours, days, years). So… How does it feel to be wrong?

Sad? Embarrassing? Angry?

Answers like this are mostly answers to a different question. And that question would be: What does it feel like to ~realize~ we were wrong? Our human problem is… being wrong feels about the same as being right. It’s only later, at some point when we discover we were wrong that those regrets and embarrassments and other feelings creep in. The challenge is staying open to other possibilities and interpretations, even when we might be convinced we are right about a given interpretation of something, or one particular side of an issue.

So what does it feel like being wrong? The same as feeling right. The point being… our sense of being right (feeling right) is unreliable in determining rightness or accuracy or truth.

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