In this episode, we discuss how there is too much information out there to know everything, but it’s not okay to ignore the facts once you receive the truth.
Full Transcript
Hi Everyone, welcome to the You’re Daily Cup of Joe Podcast, with your host Joe Bautista. In this podcast, my goal is to give you quick lessons that you can reflect on in your journal so you can grow yourself physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually and have a better career, better relationships, and better personal finances while you enjoy your morning cup of coffee.
I’m also the author of the book “More You Know, More You Grow: How to Get Better Every Day”. In this book, I wrote down over 30 tips to help you grow in those four cornerstones. I’m also the founder of Grow With Joe, where I combine self-development coaching and financial planning for Latino Professionals.
At the end of today’s podcast episode, I’m going to give you a prompt question to reflect on in your journal. The idea is to take one to five minutes to reflect on today’s lesson and write a minimum of one paragraph on how you can apply the lesson in your life. You can use an actual journal, a word document like on Google Drive, or your note-taking app like Evernote. The idea is that you’re actually thinking about how to process the information to help you improve your life.
In today’s episode, we are going to talk about the need to know how to be wrong. And the best way to do this is to embrace ignorance, not arrogance. There is way too much going on in the world where we can know everything about everything. We have too many responsibilities and obligations in our day to spend all our time studying. We got to live life too.
I know I’m going to be wrong about a lot of things, and the key thing is just to accept the truth and not double down on my false beliefs. If I hold onto my false beliefs, then I’m being arrogant and that’s not good for anybody. I’m just being too prideful in my way and it’s just causing more damage.
Now some of these things I can be wrong about could be cognitive biases that I’m not aware of. So I need to spend time studying these issues as well. If someone brings to my attention that I’m doing something wrong, then I’m going to take that information in the process it against other information I have, and then come up with a decision on the best next thing to do is.
The worst thing to do is just to dismiss it because I feel like I’m a better person. I know I can be wrong and I will accept that. I’m not going to let being wrong hurt my pride, I’m going to say I was wrong and try to be a better person the next time around. If I don’t do this then I’m being arrogant and that’s just going to be bad for the world overall.
And sometimes my ignorance could be coming from a good place. If I’m hosting a party, then I should make sure that I’m taking other’s people needs into consideration. If someone has a diet restriction, then I should consider that. Other times though, you don’t need to. If you’re hosting a party and only want to serve meat, then you can put the expectation that you’re only going to be grilling meat but if you want something to be put on the grill, they can bring it because I don’t know how to cook vegan or vegetarian food. You just have to weigh the situation. I think in that situation, it’s not mandatory to show up, so you can be as nice as you want to. If it’s a mandatory thing, then you should be more inclined to take other considerations as a factor.
We are going to make mistakes, but the best thing we can do is admit our faults and then do better the next time around. The world will be a better place but it’s okay to be ignorant, but as long as you’re a good person trying to get better every day.
That’s it for today’s episode, to summarize it, we have to be okay with being wrong and then correct our mistakes. And we are not going to know the right thing to do in every single circumstance, but the idea is to be okay with ignorance but not arrogance. With arrogance, you know you could be wrong but don’t want to admit it. And is someone admits their guilt, don’t gloat about it. You can be depending on the situation like a sports outcome but not in a work environment. Especially now with the black lives matter movement, there are tons of things that people didn’t know about but I think we’re moving in the right direction. We are not accepting arrogance anymore and it’s a positive move in the right direction.
So in your journal, ask yourself, what is something that you were ignorant about in your life? This could be with your family, at work, or with yourself. What will help you understand the situation better? Are you letting your ego hold you back from moving on? You can write about all three things or something else if you feel like it. The goal of life is to live as close to the truth as possible and just be a good person. Do this and your life can be better and the world will be better as well.
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