We’re taught being wrong is a negative thing, through the grading system in school, and even the workplace. If you get something wrong on a test you get your grade and that’s that. Most teachers won’t let you retake the test even though you just learned from your mistake! You get something wrong at work and you’ll have a strong chance of losing your job. I recently discovered how much I love being wrong. Our ego’s seem to avoid this at all costs, and once I became aware of this, it made me appreciate ignorance. If we had all the answers life would be boring. Learning, growing, experiencing is the reason life can be exciting. But we think we know it all. Once we’re out of school we rarely take the time to learn, as if school taught everything we needed to know. Imagine a circle representing the amount of knowledge you have, and the circumference of this circle is the amount of knowledge you are ready to learn. The bigger your circle of knowledge gets, the bigger the circumference of ignorance is. Meaning, life never gets boring, you’ll never have all the answers and that is a beautiful thing! We can fill up the years of our lives with experience and it never has to slow down. I was told by a 50 year guy that he just had the greatest summer of his life! I am 19, are you telling me the greatest summer of my life will not happen for potentially 31 years?! That excites the shit out of me so I decided to talk about why I love being wrong, and how becoming curious rather than a “know-it-all” is much more exciting.
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