You know the importance of the order of operations are to correctly solving an equation. You get one step wrong, and no matter how accurately you solve each step after it, you still arrive at a wrong answer.
When navigating a plane or a ship, being wrong by a single degree can put you miles off course. Not too big of a deal when traveling a few hundred miles, but the farther the destination, the more critical it is to stay on course.
When you get something wrong, the sooner you correct it the less negative impact it will have. Thinking back to the math problem, sometimes you don’t know why the answer is wrong because you can’t identify where you went wrong. Ever felt like that in life?
Don’t think of “wrong” as in “right or wrong”, instead think of it as “wrong for you now”. Your motivation, beliefs, framing, or dreams need to evolve with you. What was once useful to you may no longer be. What once was right for you, may be wrong for you now.
Wrong prolongs wrong. The sooner you correct it, the sooner you can move forward.
