Shane Parrish
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
You were in an ordinary moment and you made a choice and that choice had a huge ramification on you later in life.
Yeah, we'd rather feel right than be right.
I use these little catchphrases with myself just as a reminder to encapsulate these ideas.
It's almost the compression of a big idea.
And in this case, one of the things that I use with myself is outcome over ego.
Hmm.
That's a great one.
Am I working towards the best outcome or am I working towards proving myself being right?
And when I think about proving myself being right, I'm on the wrong side of right.
Yeah.
And I used to do this all the time.
I started at an intelligence agency and I was a programmer.
And if I wasn't, I was a knowledge worker.
And if I wasn't right, then what was I was worthless.
Because I'm hired to be right.
I'm hired to do this job.
I'm hired to know the answer.
I'm hired to do all of these things.
And I have all this self-worth and all this ego built up in that.
And if I'm not right, what am I?