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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.
In today’s episode, we are going to talk about the secret is realizing that wrong isn’t fatal. I know for some people, that can’t admit that they are wrong. One of my favorite things is to say I don’t know. There are also things that I used to think were right, but now I know were wrong.
I’m not going to fight to keep that identity because it’s going to prohibit my growth as a person. I placed myself in a box and that box is going to be smaller. Like a goldfish, it only grows as big of the pond or bowl that it is placed in.
Some people can spend forty years thinking one way, and it could be wrong. So they just double down on their beliefs and keep going. I was recently watching a documentary on Netflix about people who believe that the world is flat. To me, these people are just doubling down on identity because it gives them a tribe to talk to.
Flat Earthers have conferences that they go to and they do experiments in groups as they try to prove that the world is flat. They have podcasts, Facebook groups, and other forms of community where they can share their beliefs and feel like they belong. At the end of the documentary, they show everyone at the conference and they cut to a bunch of speakers on how they appreciated that they had a group to share their ideas.
In the group, they are important and feel valued, and outside of the group they can lose all of these social benefits that we desire as humans. We all want to feel like we belong to the group and some people just find a group. That group can be chess, music, or a belief.
Plus if you’re wrong and admit that you were wrong and work on improving yourself, then people will forgive you. For myself, I don’t like our two-party system for politics, and I don’t even like the other parties. There are things that I like about all the parties, but the system as a whole, I don’t agree with.
To me, it’s weird that when a President gets impeached, all the Republicans decided that he needs to stay in office and all the democrats decide that he needs to be kicked out of office. People are voting on political lines and if they don’t, they might not get from the DNC or the RNC.
I’m studying the systems and seeing what is truth and what is a lie, then I’ll make the best decision I can. I know I’m going to be wrong about things, but I’m not going to play along with things that I know are wrong.
I’ve also been wrong in relationships, and I try to admit my mistakes. And when I’ve admitted my mistakes, it wasn’t fatal. As people, we can always redeem ourselves, but we just have to follow the process to make it happen. Then we can expand our box and grow to new heights.
And that’s it for today’s episode, to summarize it, the secret is realizing that wrong isn’t fatal. We can always rebound from being wrong if we admit it and then work on things to choose the right path. It’s probably going to be difficult, but it can help you grow to new heights as a person. Then when this happens, you won’t even miss your old life. You’ll realize that it’s much better to live the truth than to live a lie. And the worth thing we can do is to lie to ourselves that we’re right. So many problems in the wrong come from living these lies and thinking they are truths. So do the right thing admit things when you’re wrong. It makes you a better person and the world a better place as well.
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