Admitting to be wrong

[nema]

Just a piece of advice that i can give, since i've been guilty many times of it. And I don't mean to preach because i'm not a Priest, it just seems like a problem that many people have.
I noticed a pattern of internal "fights" on the forum and i'm almost sure that the root of them is always the same: instead of admitting to be wrong, at lot of times we lie to ourself, pretending that we don't understand how wrong we are. So we become entangled in a web of our own BS. The mind (or maybe the ego) hates being wrong; so it works to justify our f**k ups, instead of correcting them.
That's also the reason why most people after a certain age rather die than hear the Truth, they just can't accept that they've been fools for all of their life; they prefer to keep lying to themself.
Here, it usually become something like "i'm just too smart and nobody can understand me", or "i am the only free spirit and everybody else here is a sheep".
The worst part is when we try to justify thoughts that aren't even ours, like when we get attacked and we start hating the ToZ or the Gods for no reason; the mind wants to justify that, for some reason. So It will give you reasons to keep believing what the attack made you feel.
Every human is a Genius and an idiot at the same time. When we learn to admit It and smile about it, we save a lot of time and misused anger..
Hail Zeus!

 

[Aquarius]

Very well said.

A grandiose ego doesn't help anybody.

A humbled ego can shortly hurt, but will save you in the long-term.