January 22, 2022
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You’re right sir. Most of your questions are answered with the words “yes” and “no.” You’re right about the “yes” and “no” answers, and you’re right about the meaning of the words. You are right about the fact that you are right and I am wrong.
For instance, I don’t know if my husband is my dad, but he’s been at the party for three years now, so I don’t know if my husband is my dad. But I do know that I’m my dad. So I’m right and he’s been my father for the past three years, so I’m right.
You are right that you are right and I am wrong. It takes a lot of time to figure out that you are right just by saying you are right. Thats what your blog is about. When I want to figure out that I am wrong I use the word I. It is always right to say I, but I am not always right.
Like the phrase “I am not always right.” we all have a favorite word that we use to remind ourselves how right we are. A popular example is the word “I” which we all use to remind ourselves about something we think we know but actually do not. For example, I remember one time my dad made me take my homework out to the yard and I did. I had no idea I was in trouble.
But I think the best way to remind yourself is to just take a minute and just do a little bit of it. Try to make the first few times you think you are wrong a little bit harder to do than the times when you think you are right.
The second best way is to make the first time you truly believe you are right that a little bit harder. For example, say you are watching TV and you think it’s a fox that is eating all the bread in your grocery store. After all, it does not take a minute to recognize a fox. You just roll over and wait for it to come into view. The next time you are watching TV, you’ll be shocked to see a bear eating the bread.
You are also right in that we live in a world where we can be wrong without realizing it. There are millions of people who live in a state where they are never wrong, and they are so convinced they are right that they won’t even question it. This is not the same thing as being wrong, and its a much more uncomfortable feeling.
We are constantly being wrong about everything. Everyone else is wrong too, but we are always right, so the only way we can truly recognize it is when we are not at our best, we are always right. The way we do this is by being honest with ourselves about the ways we are wrong, and in that way we can come up with ways to improve from it.
The worst part of this is that we are constantly being wrong about things that matter to us. We often seem so confident in our ability to recognize our error that we don’t want to question our assumptions. But we can’t really question our assumptions because they are so deeply ingrained that they are unconscious. And unconscious assumptions have an amazing way of surfacing if we are not careful about them.
What I call the unconscious assumption is the belief that there is a right answer that everyone can agree on. It’s a good assumption to have, but it is not the right assumption. Just because everyone agrees on it doesn’t mean that we have to agree on things; we need to question our assumptions so that we can be better at noticing when we are wrong.