Observe your enemies, for they
first find out your faults.
Antisthenes
The two most dangerous things in life is the
automatic assumption that you are right and the stubbornness to avoid even considering
the possibility that you might be wrong. People in general love to dissect every
word or idea that anyone has, yet become defensive when this is done to
themselves. It perfectly fine to call out other’s faults yet to call out your
own? That would be admitting weakness.
Or would it? The reality is you can’t change
what you don’t confront. And it takes more strength to confront yourself than
what it does to confront anyone else. You need to look at who you are and who
you were to understand who you will be. Look at yourself with the same critical
nature you do when evaluating others. Can you measure up to your own
expectations?
Become your own peer review. Consider the possibility
that you might need to change your path, that you might have been wrong. There
is nothing wrong about having been wrong. What is wrong is being to stubborn to
realize it.
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