On being wrong in public

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Being wrong in front of other people is one of the small terrors of adult life, and most of our habits are quietly organised around avoiding it. We hedge, we stay quiet in meetings, we let a bad plan run rather than admit we misjudged it. Yet the people I trust most are precisely the ones who will say, plainly and without drama, that they got something wrong. It costs them a moment of discomfort and buys them years of credibility.

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