I think it’s a healthy thing to do to admit when your wrong as it places importance on truth rather than self image.
Some examples:
I thought pay-per-view was paper-view because you had to fill out a form to watch it.
This morning I insisted there was a noise outside to my partner and it was in fact the refrigerant in the fridge gurgling.
I thought the cat wanted to be pet— it did not.
I’m an engineer. It’s my job to be wrong until I’m right.
I’m bookmarking this
I thought I was wrong, once. But I was mistaken.
In 1992 I thought the GOP was being hyperbolic about Bill Clinton’s history of sexual predation. Im not proud of that.
In 1992 I thought the GOP cared about extra marital sexual activity. They do not.
I was wrong thinking that having access to information would change the world for the better.
My childish self honestly had no idea that so many people would rebel against their fellow man and common sense rather than learn and accept that they had some wrong information about something.
My hopeful naivety kept me blind to the idea that people are fundamentally stupid, and will fight to the bitter end to die like the dogs they are rather than take one step as a human being that has the tiniest little flaw.
And that includes myself.
I misspelled Denuvo earlier and two people had to be jerks about it.
There are a few controversial subjects I’ve changed my mind about recently, and it only happened because someone actually took the time to engage with me instead of just hurling insults and trying to shut down the discussion. I’m not even going to specify what I changed my mind about, because I know I’d just get attacked again - for views I don’t even hold anymore.
Thought isn’t a crime we all deserve the chance to grow
I thought the cat wanted to be pet— it did not.
I bet it did want to be petted but its a cat… so those things change pretty quickly and most of the time your gonna be the last to know
Several times as viewable here on the Fediverse; this account, my P.D. account, accidentally posted a comment to the wrong post as viewable in the modlogs😣, CCing lemmy.ca admins and P.D. admins.
Making mistakes all the time is painful; hopefully I’ve repeated less of them as time continues or so I hope anyways…
Omg last night at pool league. 9-ball playoffs. I, possibly the best player on our team, called a timeout to “help” the worst player on our team, and gave solid advice on what shot to take, but failed to understand her skill level and failed to give additional helpful details (like how hard to hit it). She missed the shot and set up her opponent for an easy win and we ultimately lost the tournament by one point. Sigh. Big ole goof and totally my fault.
I recently thought geese just ate bugs in the grass and even said so, but apparently they graze on the grass. I admitted my mistake when I found out a couple days later.
I’m wrong all the time.
Just yesterday I was talking to a friend, mentioning that it is insane how it was only a few years ago that a province in my country removed the rule that all government buildings need to have a christian cross on the wall.
Turns out the conservatives successfully fought that change and it’s still mandatory.
It’s impossible to be correct 100% of the time
I didn’t realize “banal” was pronounced “ban all” and cluelessly described something as “b-anal”
Well that must have been a pain in the butt
Both pronunciations are okay :)
I thought trumps handler wouldn’t let him actually do tariffs
I’m remodeling a house and I’ve learned that my initial idea is always wrong and it will take me 3 days to accept the right answer.
I am wrong about almost every major decision I make on my life. I am never wrong about trivia though
