The joy of being wrong May 13, 2008
Posted by David Gillespie in digital strategy, web 2.0.Tags: Andrew Cafourek, Marketing Magazine, Paul Arden, Tumblr
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Some people have a love-hate relationship with their own fallibility. Not me. I revel in it. I was talking earlier today about widening the range of ideas you let in to your head so as to stimulate your own thinking from a different perspective.
I was thinking about this a bit more today after posting over at the Marketing Magazine forums on the subject of being wrong in a digital space. We should be embracing the rapid pace at which everything is changing; every error, every out and out mistake is a lesson learned and a rule formed in a space where so few exist.
I wrote at the beginning of the year I was spending more time thinking about what was least wrong as opposed to most right. Semantics sure, but the point is we don’t know right now, and nor should we. If everyone could for just one day check their egos at the door and revel in the fact we’re still figuring this out, we’d get a lot more done.
Image from Paul Arden’s It’s not how good you are… – found via Andrew Cafourek’s Tumblog.
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