30 Days of Being Wrong - 10 Years On

Well 10 and a half years to be more precise! So, why has this taken so long and when will I finish the sketchnotes? Your guess is as good as mine, on both questions. Being wrong was a difficult activity to do during My Year of TED and, much like Choice, I think it was probably even more difficult to reflect upon. Because I have had a complete mental block for this for months! Now, I am not discounting the absolute craziness of my life in the last few months of 2022 as significantly contributing to my procrastination on this one - but the subject matter undoubtedly had an impact.

This activity was informed by two talks by Kathryn Schulz - links to the talks are included in the activity outline, of course.

How has this evolved

If you haven’t read the post about 30 days of Choice (which coincided with the bulk of this activity) it’s probably worthwhile having a look there to help inform this. While I still believe it is important for all of us to maintain a mindset that is willing to consider that we might be wrong in a situation, it is NOT healthy to do a 30 day activity analysing this alongside regrets. It’s even less healthy to extend it to 45 days!!!

And now, this really did remind me about some regrets I have truly let go of in my life. Given I still have a tendency to beat myself up a bit at times, it was nice to reflect on how much kinder and gentler I am to my past-self and the decisions she wasn’t really equipped to control.

More importantly though, I have fully adopted the mindset that failing is an integral part of the learning process - I train others about that fact now too. When I finally got into reflecting on where I am now with this it was a much stronger and kinder place than I expected. But, it’s still a good reminder to check my information and consider whether I might be wrong if people disagree :-)