“Just because you’re right, I don’t have to be wrong.” — Wayne Dyer

How many times have we felt the need to prove our point in a conversation – as if being “right” gives us more value? It’s almost instinctive – to defend our perspective.

We tend to enter conversations like battlegrounds, forgetting that both sides can hold truth. What if we consider that being “right” doesn’t mean someone else has to be “wrong”? What if we shifted from defending our stance to understanding someone else’s point of view?

I’ve been on this book currently and it got me thinking. We live in a world of multiple truths. My experience, my feelings, and my perspectives are valid – just as much as the other person’s, maybe in a different way than mine but nevertheless valid still the same.

It’s okay to live in a space where multiple truths and perspectives co-exist. I don’t need to be wrong for you to be right & vice versa.

When we let go of the need to be “right,” we create room for empathy and deeper connection. It’s not about diminishing my voice, or yours, but allowing someone else’s to be heard, too.

It should never be about “winning” the argument but about gaining from the experience and growing from it.

Considering this idea has in turn validated the fact that I don’t need to be perfect, and neither do the people around me. There’s strength in acknowledging that both sides of a story can exist without conflict.

With everything else going on around us, that is one thing we tend to forget while leaning into figuring out who is wrong and who is right. We can just instead work on being our true selves.

I get that words are easy. Doing is more complicated than speaking. But I also think that the first step is the heaviest one while moving forward.

Today, I invite you to lean into that openness. Not every conversation needs a winner and a loser – sometimes, it’s enough to simply share space with someone’s truth.

Let’s choose to connect over correct. Let’s choose to embrace our humanity when it’s easier to choose otherwise.

The world could use more understanding, now more than ever, don’t you think?

Love always,