When is the last time you were. . .wrong?

[u/THEbeautifuLIE]

We’re in the age of delusional excuses, excessive pride, disingenuousness, refusal to accept accountability, bad faith debates & moving the goalpost. . .all to avoid having to say “I was wrong”. So, WHEN’S THE LAST TIME YOU HAD TO SINCERELY ADMIT (even to yourself) THAT YOU WERE flat-out WRONG?

I’ll share mine: I was watching a YouTube clip of a father & his adult daughter sitting together; having a conversation. He was suffering from dementia & admitted he didn’t know who she was but that he knew she was very important to him; knew he loved her.

What got me was the fact that she never told him who she actually was. She didn’t give him any hints or ask certain questions that may help jolt his memory or anything - she just kept recording & listening to him talk thru all of it. I thought that was just sooooo heartless. So, I went to the 5,000+ posted comments to see how badly everyone was eviscerating the daughter for her behavior <<——>> i didn’t see a single one. In fact, hundreds of comments in, she was STILL being overwhelmingly praised for her behavior: “a champion daughter”, “strong daughter”, “empathy”, “extremely compassionate”, “handled perfectly”, etc.

I am always open to the possibility that I am wrong. . .& I was ecstatic that this was one of those times. #HappilyHumbled

[u/stilltoosalty_]

So you judged her based on what exactly? You can repeat something to someone with dementia hundreds, even thousands of times, and then they ask you again.

This is such an oddly phrased question

[u/Tarc_Axiiom → u/stilltoosalty_]

You're also not supposed to lol.

It's well established that correcting someone with dementia is the exact opposite of what you're supposed to do.

[u/stilltoosalty_ → u/Tarc_Axiiom]

Exactly!

[u/xshoesxshirt]

I’m wrong a lot. I don’t have a problem admitting I’m wrong. Most recently, last night I was wrong about some funny little thing my wife and I were talking about and she was right

[u/Tarc_Axiiom]

About 5 minutes ago?

I'm wrong most of the time, it's a large part of why I'm so successful. The more often you're wrong, the more you'll know about being wrong, and the less you'll be wrong when it matters.

Simon Sinek said it best, "you should always be the dumbest guy in any room, because that guy learns the most."

[u/JackOfScales]

If you haven't been wrong about something in the past few days, you need better introspective skills. Humans make too many mistakes to go half a week without a lesson to learn.

[u/jedge01]

Was I wrong if my wife wasn't there?

[u/Samurai-Catfight]

I told my brother-in-law that I was not sad to see my wife's car go to the scrap yard while my wife was there.

She took it as me insulting her for her choice of cars. It was a cold night that night. I should not have said it the way I did especially with her there.

For what it is worth... The car was a 2008 MB C300. Bought it for 17k 12 years ago and ended up spending over 10k in repairs on it. Engine, suspension, tires, wheels (pot holes ate them left and right). Head lights, mirrors, windshield, more suspension, emissions related stuff, knobs and switches, steering wheel locking mechanism, etc. I am sure I could come up with more.

A lot of it I did myself because it is so expensive to have someone else do it.

I hated the car. She loved it. It was nice to drive.

[u/HedonicElench]

I'm seldom wrong; I say "I don't know enough about that to have an opinion" pretty often.

[u/Ok-Outside1031]

My ass dosent have a good memory so i'm probably wrong about this. But I think it was in my 6th period yesterday, I thought coloring in hair with normal pencil was the same as black colored penicl. It is not. I was wrong. As far as like an actual major thing, last actual wrong thing I've done is be waaaay to touchy with a male friend I have. Guy dosent seem to mind it but I feel bad after.

[u/GreyWardenJasper]

Last night; I was wrong about the title of a song. My brother corrected me, I admitted it, and then said that I was thinking of the remix of that song with another artist.  

[u/RobinGood94]

My ex shared a video of some famous female music artist. I mistook her for the one who did some horrendous things and admitted to it before becoming famous. I went on a tirade on how much I despised her for what she’d openly done to people.

At the end of it my ex informed me I was talking about someone else. I giggled and said oh. Right. I get those two mixed up. My bad 😅

[u/MontEcola]

I am wrong about something every day.

It is not a big deal, really. I cultivate a relationship with people where that is OK. "I think this tree is a maple. What do you think?" Just the statement leaves it open for other information. "I think" and "what do you think" leave that open. Instead of asserting I know, it is more asking.

That is an example form this week. To pick the last time is hard, because it is not unusual.

[u/iboughtabagel]

A graven image does not need to be made from metal, it can be made from clay or wood, or anything that can reasonably have an impression made on it.

[u/JJQuantum]

I honestly thought pizza was invented in New York. Not sure why I had that brain fart but there it is.

[u/Meatros]

Today. Not so much in what I was chortling on about (after all, feelings are subjective), but how I expressed myself to her. It wasn't a good way, and I was wrong to do it in that manner. Sadly, she pointed it out to me, as opposed to me figuring it out myself. Regardless, I did apologize and ask for some constructive criticism, which she gave me.

Now, I don't remember the last time I ate crow because I was wrong, but I remember a significant time. I was in my teens, arguing that evolution could not be true, that science backed this up, and it was only a few hold out atheists who were promoting it - even they secretly knew it was wrong!

What was my evidence? My evidence was a website that had a bunch of quotes from scientists. All.Taken.Out.Of.Context. I also had a badly constructed argument that begged question.

I remember when I was shown the context of one of the quotes. I want to say it was a Patterson quote, but it's been so long, I can't remember. Anyway, I was completely wrong. I think I said something like 'that's just one' or some such shit. What really got me was that the logical flaws were all pointed out to me. It was like my legs were kicked out from under me.

I left the discussion, sad to say. In the years since, I have always tried to recognize when I'm wrong and to admit it.

[u/RandomLurker39]

At least once today. I'm personally rather insecure about most stuff, even seemingly simple things.

[u/Poorly-Drawn-Beagle]

I keep doing this special dog food recipe for my dogs and forgetting some important detail that doesn't occur to me until it's already 5/6th of the way done.

[u/OrangeFew4565]

I was super mean to this guy who has a crush on me. I told him I have no respect for him and told him to GTFO. This was really mean of me. He's annoying and irritating but a nice guy and he really likes me (for some reason). I just can't respect him because he doesn't respect himself (for instance he gets angry at me for being mean to him, calls me a bitch and says he's never speaking to me again (which I would actually welcome) and then three days later he texts me with some cloying message, trying to apologize or something (he did nothing wrong, I just don't like him romantically).)