Friday, May 15, 2015

The Kindness of Admitting Mistakes

"Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement."
~ Henry Ford

I recently sat at a business lunch with a group of people whom I only know professionally.  One gentleman shared how he had changed a significant political viewpoint based on a mistake.  He had publicly opposed something only to realize that he had been wrong.  So he has publicly admitted that he was wrong and can even joke about it.  His willingness to do that has paved the way not only for significant contributions to the public debate from him, but also for others to shift their viewpoints and evolve in their thinking.

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