have you ever been so dug in on a solution or an opinion that it felt
impossible to admit that you were in fact wrong
so I actually almost gave up on this question in in because it's been on I
learned this lesson a long time ago that again the the humility that you get from
jujitsu and from combat and from life is that I very seldom dig in on something
that I'm not a hundred percent sure of and and which means I don't dig in on
the lock so I'm not a hundred percent sure of much right who can be a hundred
percent sure of a lot of things and when I do do that it's not that hard for me
to realize that I'm wrong stifle my ego admit it and change of course it's not
that big of a deal to me when I like I said when I do dig in on a subject or on
a decision it's because I know like almost to a 100% certainty that I'm
right otherwise I'm going to leave myself a little bit of an out I'm not
gonna just dig in on things that I can't be positive about because why would I
why would I do that now when I end up being wrong if I do take a stance on
something it's no big deal I'm gonna use that as an opportunity to show that I'm
humble and show that I can admit when I'm wrong I'm gonna take advantage of a
good I'm wrong good and you know so I would say just keep your options open
keep an open mind when you feel yourself or your ego is digging in just check
yourself and admit that you're wrong and move on and one thing I think that
happens with people is people think that digging in and having a strong 100%
opinion makes them appear stronger or it makes their idea appear stronger but I
don't think so I I'm not saying to be wishy-washy on stuff I'm just saying no
I have an open mind because I think that's the ultimate strength that's kind
of my opinion I mean the last time I came close to digging in I was advising
company and they were going through some rough a little bit of a rough patch and
they started multiple initiatives to try and turn some some things around and one
of the initiatives of all the initiatives there was a couple that the
CEO wanted done immediately and two of those initiatives when I looked at them
I thought I thought that they were redundant mm-hmm and so I said look I
wouldn't waste I wouldn't do both these initiatives just pick one I think this
one is the better one just do this one and I think it'll cover the problem and
I convinced him it was pretty easy to convince him because they were had
limited resources at the time and limited assets so it wasn't like they
had a bunch of stuff to spread around but he was pretty set on it but I
convinced him otherwise and he agreed and within a matter of days it started
to look like I was wrong and it started to look like both systems we're gonna be
needed to solve that specific issues so I didn't like wait I didn't say oh I
hope that things go I said look hey I think I was wrong about this I think you
were right let's get the other initiative going and let's get this
problem covered and that's it hmm and I'm telling you he didn't lose
respect for me mm-hmm because I said hey I'm wrong after a few
days of watching what the results are and making an early decision he actually
thought it was awesome any-any oh he's like yeah I wish I wish everyone could
admit when they were wrong like that it would make everything around here so
much easier and I said well that's why I'm here in the first place right is to
help with that so just be cautious when you dig in you know cuz when you dig in
you you're actually when you dig in you're taking away your ability to
maneuver oh yeah you don't want to do that it's good so so watch out