by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n
A problem with being right is that learning tends to cease.<\/strong><\/p>\n There is a problem with being right or being on the right side in many senses of the phrase: learning tends to cease or at least greatly decrease.<\/p>\n Consider what I used to tell boys when I coached them in various sports. It was a paraphrase of what consultant and author Jerry Weinberg told me: “You can’t always choose to win, but you can always choose to learn.”<\/p>\n In sports and games and such, “winning” is often out of my control. There are other players, there are coaches, and there are referees of one sort or another. I don’t choose to win or lose. I can choose to learn from whatever the contest or outcome may be.<\/p>\n I go to a job each day. I don’t choose the outcome of the day. Things may “go well” today (that usually means they go MY WAY). Things may not go quite as well as they should. Still, I can choose to learn whatever the process or outcome may be.<\/p>\n Sometimes we have disagreements on how to proceed. If I am “right,” i.e., I get MY WAY, well that is great. I go home unchanged. Well, maybe that isn’t so great as unchanged means that my thinking hasn’t changed in any way. Rats, I haven’t learned anything. I was so intent on being right, things going MY WAY, that I forget to learn.<\/p>\n I can, however, be “right” and still learn. Yes, that is true. The trouble is, at least the trouble with me is, I tend not to learn when I am right. I tend to glow in my right-ness, and that bright light blinds me to new information and learning.<\/p>\n Have I been “right” a little too much lately?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Dwayne Phillips A problem with being right is that learning tends to cease. There is a problem with being right or being on the right side in many senses of the phrase: learning tends to cease or at least greatly decrease. Consider what I used to tell boys when I coached them in various […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,20],"tags":[143,142],"class_list":["post-2475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-change","category-learning","tag-change","tag-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2476,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475\/revisions\/2476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}