How To Be Wrong

Being wrong from time to time is inevitable. Knowing how to be wrong is a crucial survival skill  - as I explained in a previous post,  being wrong, and accepting it, is a necessary step towards being right. If you need the proof, think how many organisations change CEOs because they need to change strategy. The new person isn't usually any more competent than the previous one, they are just less invested in the old strategy that has stopped working. Or, to put it even more starkly, sometimes the alternative to accepting you are wrong is unemployment. Given that is it such an important skill, how do we cultivate being wrong, making it more acceptable both to ourselves and others? Here are some strategies  which you might find useful (or you might not. I'm fine with that possibility).