it's ok to be wrong

The fear of making mistakes is a particularly strong dampener on one’s learning. You can’t learn if you can’t make mistakes. I like the idea that mastery is simply a very intimate understanding of all the possible mistakes one could make.

Being agentic is a gritty journey of trial and error, non-glamorous, and does not result in gold stars. The last thing one needs to be agentic is to appear right in contexts where being right cannot be accurately assessed. One needs to risk being wrong, which also means appearing wrong—a prospect that often translates to appearing stupid, one of th... See more

However, the most limiting factor is the desire to appear right or avoid appearing wrong. The former captures those who get egoic highs from signaling their intelligence, while the latter feel shame because they cannot. Both are playing the wrong game, originating from the schoolification of reality, which established an invisible status hierarchy ... See more