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Admit when you're wrong from "summary" of How To Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
When you are right, try to win people gently and tactfully to your way of thinking. But when you are wrong, and that will be surprisingly often, admit it quickly and emphatically. Any fool can try to defend his or her mistakes – and most fools do – but it raises one above the herd and gives one a feeling of nobility and exaltation to admit one’s mistakes. When one admits one’s mistakes, one immediately gets sympathies and often an opportunity to correct them. When you are right, try to win people gently and tactfully to your way of thinking. But when you are wrong, and that will be surprisingly often, admit it quickly and emphatically. Any fool can try to defend his or her mistakes – and most fools do – but it raises one above the herd and gives one a feeling of nobility and exaltation to admit one’s mistakes. When one admits one’s mistakes, one immediately gets sympathies and often an opportunity to correct them. It is a lot easier to change and correct oneself when one's blunders are pointed out to one, as it is for a doctor to cure a patient after the disease has been diagnosed. Most of us are blinder than the pr...
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