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- Stop needing to have the answers and get back to perpetual learning. When we're learning, and admit to being a student, it's perfectly acceptable to be wrong.
- Practice saying "I don't know or I'm not sure, what are your thoughts.”
- Lose the ego, pride gets in the way of so much progress, humility enables us to learn and improve so much more quickly (and it's easier to live with!)
- Believe that no idea is perfect, that way you will always be looking for input from others. (Which also helps build better teams.)
- Learn to laugh at yourself, there's nothing that opens up creativity and broadened perspective better than humor! (There is scientific proof of this!)
- Make sure your work includes some fun. A nerf basketball tournament was the simple tool that one creative art director used to ignite the creativity of his team!
- Always lead by example, make sure you make it easy for others to be wrong by being willing to be wrong yourself. (In fact point out your mistakes, revere them!!)
Being wrong is essential to learning, it's the perfect drug to induce a fervent desire to learn. But unfortunately many work cultures see being wrong as the kiss of death rather than the building blocks of innovative progress that it truly is.
By: Kevin Minne
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