Risk Being Wrong

Garth Beyer

I would say the most number of blog posts I’ve deleted instead of publishing were ones where I predicted things.

Predict the success of Airbnb? Predict the future of social media? Predict the future of mobile apps, eBooks, drones? Who am I to make those predictions?

Since those mistakes (the deleting, not the predicting), I’ve realized that predictions are meant to make us think about things differently. Very few who predict are right, but those who are made dozens, if not hundreds, of failed predictions before hand.

The most interesting thing is that those who predict, we’re right early. They took the risk.

If I write about how successful Airbnb will be now, well, that simply doesn’t make sense.

Predict. Try. Think about things differently.

After all, rarely does anyone notice when you’re wrong, and if they do, rarely do they care that you’re wrong. All that it takes is to be right once. And when you’re finally right? Who cares. Being right isn’t the point.

 

Stay(ing) Positive & Thinking About Things Differently Is

 

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