Being right is based upon knowledge, experience and is often provable without removing an item from the gun rack.
Knowledge comes from past experience, so it’s safe. It is also out of date, really old school. It’s the exact opposite of originality.
Experience is built from solutions to old situations and problems. The old situations are probably different from today’s crisis, so those old school methods will have to be bent or hammered to fit new problems (probably not a good fit). Also chances are if you’ve got the experience, you’ll probably use it.
This is just plain laziness on your part.
Experience is the opposite of being creative and innovative.
If you can prove you’re right, you’re feet are set in concrete. You cannot move quickly in cement shoes as the world changes, soon your old school solutions will become irrelevant.
Being right is also being unnecessarily boring. Your mind is closed; you are one 3:00am telephone call away from a brain fart. You are not open to new ideas; and every problem should not be solved with water, plywood and shotgun shells.
You are rooted in your own rightness, which is arrogant. Arrogance is a valuable tool, but only if used sparingly [Colin Powell].
Worst of all, being right has a tone of evangelism and morality about it. To be anything else sounds weak or god-forbid fallible, and people who are right would hate to be thought of as fallible.
That being said, it’s wrong to be right, because people who are right are rooted in old school beliefs, and are dull and dangerously smug.
There’s no talking to them without a shotgun.
