Daily Truth Feb. 13, 2022

You either want to be right, or you want to learn. You can’t do both.

One of the greatest joys I get in hosting a podcast is the opportunity to learn from others. This has always been my intent from episode number one but it wasn’t always that easy. When first starting out, I was nervous. Being nervous made me focus more on what questions I would ask and how I would answer their questions, that I often times wasn’t listening as intently as I could have been. We all do it in conversations each and every day. People are talking to us and instead of listening intently, we are formulating our response while they are still talking. We think we need to have the correct response, rather than engaging in learning from the person across from us.

We go into meetings with an agenda and we focus on proving to everyone in the room that we are right.

We engage in discussion or disagreements with our spouse and we aren’t really listening to their side of the story because by god, they’re wrong and we are always right.

Draw this out to a global scale and you have a snapshot of the communication taking place in the world right now. Senate hearings where committee members are supposed to be questioning those brought before them but instead, they’re pontificating about their own brilliance.

People in the online world of news and social media, besting their cheers about how right they were all along about the false narrative we were sold on this pandemic (which I believe to be the truth but don’t see the value in throwing it in the face of those who were slow to take notice).

We have to either want to learn how to solve problems or prove to others we are right. Whether it is settling a dispute within your own family or taking on global issues, we aren’t going to solve anything if we aren’t willing to learn from others.