Monday, May 16, 2011

I am WRONG and you are RIGHT.

In one of my class, there is this middle-aged lady who always talks and shares her opinions. She usually emphasizes and tells the class that she was graduating soon in Psychology major (Personally I love studying behaviours). But, she has one problem with her. When other students bring up their arguments and opinions, she tries so hard that she is right. I always notice her when she is irritated and wants everyone know believe that she is right. My thinking is that she just simply thinks she is always right because she is older than most of the students and behaviour study major. But, she reminds me that all disastrous mistakes come from being too sure you are always right, not listening to others. I was watching Kathryn Schulz's lecture that was on TED, she pointed out some important human misconceptions in communication. She said, "Trusting too much in the feeling of being right in anything could be very dangerous." I believe it is dangerous as well because what if you are really wrong and you don't listen to people who have right logic and perspectives that might help you. She said, there some myths out there that make people too proud to think they are wrong and people think they are always right. I wanna share them.I think they are so true.
There are:
1. The ignorance (We think that others don't know anything about what we are talking about that is why we are always right)

2. They are idiots (we think that others are just dumb and we always better than them)

3. They are evil (we think that people are argueing against us because they know we are right but they just being evil to make us look stupid)

But they are not true. We are not only ones who are claiming education, we can be wrong regardless of our education and degrees. I always think that when someone who thinks he is right, I am wrong even though it is like super common sense, he doesn't listen to me at all, shupts his mind and heart, believing too much he is right. To understand people and ourselves, we should learn how to listen to people around us. Today, I read a very good quote. It says, "Education is the ability to listen to almost everything without losing your temper and self-confident."  What I understand from the quote above is that if you lose your temper, self-control, values, you are not educated enough yet.   In a Chinese saying, it says that we have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less. I believe it will help lots of communication problems in families, friendship, societies, country, and world. Being wrong itself is not wrong by itself, i could be wrong for what I am doing, saying, and thinking. Nevertheless, it costs nothing to think again and make sure what we do make and say does make sense.

2 comments:

  1. OMG. you are such a smartie. I read above your thoughts; and learned many good things.

    Good luck

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