In class the other day, my professor posed a question. The question isn’t the main point of concern, but rather the manner of the answer. A classmate raised his hand and gave a response. My professor began her retort with the infamous, “Well … ,“ which led to my classmate to give the equally infamous “But, uh, um, wait … that’s not what I meant,” response.
It seems like a lot of people are afraid of being wrong, like as soon as they say something incorrect it’s going to be stamped to their foreheads and the whole world is going to judge them. Being wrong shouldn’t be, well, wrong. It’s just a part of life like everything else.
An article from chally.com explains this fear a little more. It starts out by calling “failure” a “dirty word.” People feel that failing makes them losers, and people feel sorry for losers in society. The article also suggests that no one likes to be pitied, so failing is simply a taboo.
Learning how to fail is the best way of dealing with it. Accepting being wrong instead of being ashamed of it can be a way of becoming successful. Only if a person allows their failure to defeat them does that person really fail.
The article goes on to say that unless a person fails well, he or she probably didn’t learn too much from the experience. It says “truly successful people not only have failed, but also are good at failing.” The key to success just may be learning to fail well.
In my own opinion, being wrong can make a person feel inadequate, but copping out and not accepting the failure is cowardly. A person who is truly confident with his or herself will try to grow from their mistake and only learn more. It’s not wrong to be wrong. And that’s the right answer.
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