If you want to improve your life dramatically, learn to be right about things without other people needing to be wrong about them.
There are many things I believe I’m right about. While I’m never 100% certain, I’m certain enough to act upon them – to let these beliefs influence my life. Sometimes, I see people publicly stating the opposite of the thing I believe to be true. Do you know what I do about it?
Why would I? Me being right doesn’t depend on them being wrong. I don’t need to correct them, convince them, or prove anything to them. I just keep living my life. Most of those people have zero power over me, so I gain nothing by going out of my way to interact with them.
In other words, I can be independently right. I don’t need to win my right-hood from anyone else. Often I see people falling over themselves to make sure other people know how wrong they are about this or that, and the world just keeps right on spinning. You waste a few breaths, you get frustrated, and along the way, you get a little more close-minded, too. Just the experience of being frustrated about someone else’s refusal to see “the truth” makes you dig in a little harder on your position.
Be right, be independent, be free.
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