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We've all been there. You are minding your own business having a conversation with a friend about your favorite movie at a coffee shop when all of a sudden, the guy at the table next to you interrupts you and says that you are both wrong and proceeds to tell you what his favorite movie is.
What is this phenomenon? Why do people have such a need to be (or feel) right? If we are honest with ourselves, we will notice that in certain environments, we, too, engaged in fruitless arguments to service this need to be right.
When we engage to try to be right, we create separation because we reduce human relationship to a verbal boxing match where one party emerges victorious over the other. Nothing is accomplished except for a momentary feeling of validation.
This need for "rightness" prevents people from truly listening to each other or cooperating for the common good. It keeps us in a permanent state of disconnection with each other and hinders our ability to solve the most important sustainability issues of our time.
This video explores the root of this need to be right, why it is so pervasive and what we can do to make sure our children don't grow up with this anti-social behavior. A more sustainable world will only come about if we can truly learn to listen to one another.
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