Admitting you're wrong beats defending a flawed position. The speaker argues that good faith, humility, and listening matter more than having perfect answers, and that staying adaptable leads to better outcomes than doubling down to win.
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So you're never going to get that perfect answer. Very rarely you're going to have the outcome that's exactly what you want, but you can generate a lot of goodwill by approaching it in good faith, with open-minded, with humility, willingness to listen more than talk sometimes. Also willingness to correct your course when you realize you're off the mark somewhere. You're not going to be perfect, but the question is, are you going to be operating in good faith and willing to challenge yourself and willing to be self-aware and to grow? Or are you going to double down no matter what happens just to get what you want or what you think you want? Yeah.