I am Wrong, I Was Wrong, and I will be Wrong…
By: Srombi Christian
Tags: Hope, Universe, Thinking, Biased, Objective Truth

This is the new success mantra, whether you buy it or not.

I love writing articles and essays, and as we are approaching the end of the most turbulent year the world has ever seen, I was searching for a topic that makes a difference for my readers and me.

Though entering the new year 2021, the stigma of pandemic and uncertainty will not leave us. Instead, it is coming with us like our own shadow. If you do not know how to survive or succeed, this might be the new success mantra you should understand and accept; this could be your New Normal.

I am wrong, I was wrong, and I will be wrong.

I may sound crazy, but allow me to tell you, one of my Literature Professors during my graduation told me, “The craziest people once ruled the World.” For example, Hitler, Putin, and Trump, for instance. Though I may sound crazy, I have no intention to rule the world.

To explain my concept better, let me try to illuminate this article with one perfect experiment example.

Let us take a random mix of 100 people; they can be men and women in any ratio they fit, and we instruct each one of them to take out one coin and flip. After flipping the coin, let us ask them publicly how many got heads and tails. Here the probability says that there is a 50%-50% chance of getting heads or tails. So lets us again assume that 50 of them got heads and 50 of them got tail. Let us instruct the ones who got tails to sit down. Now we with the remaining, let us conduct the same experiment, again we got the same result from the remaining 25 people who got heads and 25 called tails. Let the tail result people sit down also, and we continue the experiment ahead until we have ended up with only one person who has got heads.

What would we call that person? Lucky? Right?

Here we are wrong in our thinking, now if we tell him/her to flip the coin, it may come as the tail, and he/she may need to sit down. He/she is no luck, no special. The experiment is designed so that no matter whatever you do, one person will end up with heads every time, but that does not make him lucky.

And why are we wrong? Simply because we are biased to that person based on the result of the experiment.

In this world, when we live in the most uncertain time, this bias has spread deep roots in our naive minds. There are many biases, political science biases, cultural biases, office performance biases, religious biases, social biases, and many more.

We create our own biases based on a particular result or event which has happened. After completing our own bias, we read articles that prove our theory, create companies in our offices who think alike us, create groups of friends who think alike and hate the people in the office or even at home who do not support our ideology or hypothesis.

We create our own Static Universe, and this is the biggest mistake we can ever make.

There are great ideology and theory which states we are part of the Universe, Universe is part of us, and nothing is static, which means everything is changing every second, even the universe is changing and expanding every second nothing is permanent. Change is happening everywhere, but as an individual, we create a bias and then believe that the created bias is not only true but is permanent.

We create our own universe taking the base of our bias, and then we start influencing others by gospel preaching them about our theory, and we try to make them part of our Universe, which has created and has caged ourselves.

There is one more way we are wrong, and the classic example would be the HR Division in the company. There are always specific individuals in the office who always have a bias that HR never thinks of employees' betterment. Salespeople have their own bias that production people never go to market. They do not know what produce to get more sales. One can get these kinds of biased examples everywhere.

So what happens when an HR manager creates a good policy? The biased individuals will always presume that the policy is utter nonsense and is not for employees' betterment. Sometimes new product launches are not accepted by the salespeople if the new product is the baby of the product engineer who has never step a foot in the market.

So I have concluded that we may be wrong, we are wrong, and we will be wrong. This can be a success mantra because if you read this, understand this and then believe in it; then, it gives you a chance to review your stand one more time whenever you are making any decision. What if my hypothesis is wrong.What if I review the HR policy again? What if I review the new product launch again. Here “What if?” becomes very powerful and gives us a loophole to get free from our own created Universe and enter into a different universe of possibilities.

and try to find out the other side of the story. It is crucial to reconsider our decision because we create our own Biased Universe based on assumptions or presumptions.

So, believe me, or not, but this is the new success mantra, I am wrong, I was wrong, and I will be wrong.

Maybe this Article can be Wrong; Maybe My Thinking Can Be Wrong.

But I have reviewed it before publishing; I have given a second thought and second chance and then have decided to publish it.

Thank you for investing time in reading this article.

Regards,

Srombi Christian