One of the biggest obstacles to change is the desire to be right.
We’re often very invested in our knowledge, understanding and views about the world, ourselves, others.
People often identify with their opinions and perspectives and hence cling onto them for dear life—because a change of perspective feels like a threat to their self-image.
But what most of us don’t realise is that ironically the fixation on being right keeps us stuck—because it includes being right about thoughts and perspectives that aren’t in service to us, our peace and well-being.
The desire to be right manifests as holding onto our limited and limiting thoughts about ourselves and the world. And so in ways that we are often not fully aware of, we end up fighting for that which constrains and confines us.
More invested in being right than in creating the life we say we want to create.
So threatened we are by not knowing or being wrong that we would often rather fail than be wrong.
And so the degree to which we can allow ourselves to not know, to be comfortable with being wrong, and to be more curious and more comfortable with not having figured it all out—is the degree of liberation and openness to possibility that we can find.
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