Do You Have a Hard Time Admitting You're Wrong?
 

I know some people just can't admit it when they bone up. I'm usually the first person to admit when I fuck up, but I am also seeking a solution at that time.

How about you? Can you admit it when you are wrong?

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Worst mistake ever!! Can I blame it on being sick? Usually I'm a Nazi about that.

My bad. I admit it.

If I am wrong and I know I am wrong I will admit it immediately. Gotta get past the mistakes to move forward so I think it is a critical ingredient when working with others :2 cents:

i dont have a problem with it..but im usually right :thumbsup

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I edited it - but note the reason.

No problem to admit when I'm wrong. I've had plenty of opportunities, lol.

Some people I think need to literally practice it. Like interject something you know is wrong into a conversation. Let people correct you and poke a little fun at you. Then practice saying oh yeah, you're right about that, I had that one wrong. Doh.

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I can admit when I'm wrong, but it's not often I'm wrong :-)

Sadly there are companies in this industry that will not allow one error and it sticks in their minds even after years of good service. I attempt to always double check and verify any data etc that I submit to decrease the odds plus have a team of industry friends I run things past to catch any problems I over looked. In the end - if I have made a mistake then I owe up to it since attempting to lie about it then getting caught to me is much worse than admission.

allthough I hate to be wrong I will admit it....most of the times ;)))

only if I'm right :)

I don't have to ...

To paraphrase John Kenneth Galbraith:

Given a choice between admitting that one is wrong and proving there's no need to make such an admission.... most people get busy digging up the proof.

Absolutely not.

I hereby admit that I am never wrong to prove it.

flexibility is adaption and evolution.

I did admit it once, so far back I can't remember.

I think it was during the Civil War. The Cavaliers were not where I sent my Roundhead troops. LOL

I live with someone who has that problem.

I had a friend that being RIGHT was so important that he would overkill everything you called him out on every time..

Say he was speeding and he hit a person crossing the side walk. He would say 10 KM over the speed limit isn't speeding .T he government allows a 10km grace to deal with different speedometers. The person wasn't in a designated cross walk so HE WAS jay walking and the person breaking the law. Not me..

Sure I can, but I'm always right... LoL j/k :1orglaugh

I thought I was wrong once... but I was mistaken

of course not, but many people do.

Heh, after awhile it just gets to be too much that you want to avoid topics that can cause these reactions.

Yes so I can fix myself. And be right the next time. LOL

You should have admitted it in the mobile thread. ; )

Be careful about being right though, because others can have a hard time about it
if you being right makes them wrong.

If you are working for a company and there is a problem and you find the
solution, take note of who has tried a solution already and failed or has a
solution that doesn't measure up to yours.
These people can get angry as hell because you did your job.

I've been "fired"(forced to quit) in this situation a couple of times.
I thought I was giving everyone what they wanted, a solution; but all they
really wanted was to be right.

Both times I received a phone call a couple years later with an apology after
people became happy with my solution and accepted that it was what they needed.
A lot of good the apology did me. NOT! But at least I got them.

I mostly stopped replying to some people on this forum just because they will never admit they are wrong *cough*robbie*cough*paul*cough*

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This is a true story.

One day, back in the early 90s, I was over at my friend Bill's house when a conversation kicked up about the phenomenon of religious/spiritual pilgrimages. Another friend of mine, Dave, opined that he thought it odd that Muslims all "flocked to India to go to Mecca and Medina."

Assuming that Dave had simply misspoke, another friend in the room said "You mean flock to Saudi Arabia."

Dave responded, "No! Mecca and Medina are in India."

While a few of us sat there trying to set Dave straight, Bill got up, walked out of the room and returned with an atlas. Bill has absolutely no patience for arguing points of fact with people, so he just opened the book to a map of Saudi Arabia and planted it right in front of Dave.

"Here, look Dave: this is Saudi Arabia -- there's Mecca and there's Medina... case fucking closed, dude."

Dave sat for a while in silence, staring at the map in front of him as though if he just gazed at it long enough, the names on the map (and perhaps geographical reality itself?) would somehow change.

Finally, visibly annoyed, Dave looked up and said -- I shit thee not -- "I'll have to check MY sources."

There's being ignorant, there's being stubborn..... and then there's being Dave. LOL

See, now thats the kind of person who needs to practice how to be wrong.:helpme

Being wrong is not a failure. It's an opportunity.

I'm not the smartest person in the world. If I was I would have unlimited funds and a staff of man servants to feed me and clean for me.

My best friend had the balls to tell me the other day that he was a good driver, and the fact that he was rear ended twice in the past two years wasn't his fault. Later that day we went out in his truck; Son of a bitch he tailgates like a motherfucker. I told him this and he told me he wasn't tailgating. I told him my sports car was one third of the weight of his truck and has killer brakes (I have Brembo brakes on my car) and I still keep proper braking distance. Sure enough we were driving at 35 mph, traffic stops suddenly, and he locks up his brakes trying to stop. The car behind us does the same to avoid him. He was wrong, he's been wrong for years, and he can't accept it. Thus, he'll have another accident.

Not that I'm a better driver than him or anyone for that matter.

Realizing when you are wrong is actually being right. :)

never admitting being wrong springs from fear.

sometimes weakness is strength.

im wrong so often that admitting my mistakes comes easily..lol

It's impossible for me to answer this question.

Owe up to it? No no, that's wrong. It's OWN up to it. You OWN up to it, not "owe" up to it.


Admit it, you were wrong.

I don't have a heard time admitting when I'm wrong.

What is "wrong" ? I don't know what that is.







































































Jk I hate being wrong, but I do admit it. The few times that I am :)

I'm never wrong.

I'm told my opinion is wrong all the time, but I will always admit to facts I get wrong!
Debating that is how you can learn, but then just get more pissed off at what you find out!

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omg.

I hate being wrong more than anyone I know, but the instant I know I made a mistake or am wrong about something, I always eat it... I don't always know I fucked up immediately, sometimes it takes a bit for me to figure it out, but once I do realize, I admit to it right away.

man servants?

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If I know I'm wrong, I'll take my medicine and admit.

The trick is, knowing you're wrong.

No, I have never had any problem with this. But in 99,99% of cases I'm right.

Those who say they are never wrong or only wrong a few times, I hope you are all joking and not believing your own BS.

I think I was wrong about something about 15 years ago.