Being right might be fun but, as we’ve seen, it has a tendency to bring out the worst in us. By contrast, being wrong is often the farthest thing in the world from fun—and yet, in the end, it has the potential to bring out the best in us. Or rather: to change us for the better. When I asked Anita Wilson how she thought her experience of wrongness had affected her, she said, “I’m a much kinder person than I used to be.”
