You can’t hold onto your old self and evolve into a new and better person at the same time. You can’t learn and take a more productive position if your ego doesn’t want to look wrong. The fact is, you were wrong. We’re all wrong compared to what the new smarter version of ourselves will say. To take a position and hold it forever is to be stuck.
“As long as it doesn’t harm anyone, change your opinions now and then and be unashamedly contradictory.”
– Paulo Coelho, Like a Flowing River
“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today. ‘Ah, so you shall be misunderstood,’ – Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self-Reliance”
Yes, we need more changing minds through out our country and our world. Here’s to new thoughts!
You can’t be in two places at once, this is very true. Great seeing you last week!
Great quotes Larry. I always try to encourage my team to try different things, knowing it’s okay to make mistakes. But recognize them early, own it and fix it. Have a great day all!
This is great incite, given the new direction and people iI am surrounding myself with. Thank you for sharing sir.