Always right
Right or correct?
Arguing with yourself can be a full-time job. It’s a good practice to admit to being wrong about 50 percent of the time. The habit of arguing with your inner self might seem like you would constantly win but the percentage remains. It just gets easier to rationalize. It does not get easier to accept. It is easy to have alternate thoughts within when you start to realize that everything that roams into your mind isn’t really absolute. When the ability to see all the sides is realized, the options open up and the choices increase. Conflict can be seen as a negative but that is not necessarily true. If everyone agreed about everything all the time, the world would be deadly dull and there would be little inventive spirit. Even fighting with oneself has merits. The very fact that there is disagreement shows that there is the chance that there isn’t just one path. That’s good news. When engaging in a disagreement, humans like to use their persuasive powers to influence others to see things their way. This doesn’t have to happen when self-arguing. Every side can be correct. This habit can be helpful if utilized more often in life. And it eliminates that age old quest to find the answer to where to eat, what movie to see, what to wear and how to solve that same nagging argument you have with yourself. Maybe being correct is the next thing to lose a disagreement over.
Take Five
Each week this year, read through the suggestions and see how they call out to you.
- What are you arguing about right now?
- Does changing your mind seem wrong?
- Do you fear conflict?
- Which is better – to be right or correct?
- Can you admit to being wrong 50 percent of the time?
Come back each day to see if something changes about the effect of an activity. Repeat choices to identify different thoughts. You are not the same person every day. Your life shouldn’t be either.
Live Alive.
