I was wrong. Try it.

If you were wrong about something—anything—no matter how confident you were, how passionately you felt, or how certain you were that it would go differently, simply acknowledge it.

“I was wrong.”

That’s not so bad. It happens. Being wrong isn’t the worst thing.

The worst thing is staying wrong after you realize it. Because now you’re wrong twice: first by mistake, then by choice. The person who is too proud to admit they’re wrong turns an accidental mistake into an intentional one.

Don’t stay on the wrong path just because you don’t want to acknowledge you were wrong. When you recognize you were wrong, make the correction. Bring yourself back into alignment with what is right, accurate, or reliable.

You were wrong once. Don’t be wrong twice on the same issue.

Event + Response = Outcome. Do the work.