Lore

Being Wrong (Kathryn Schulz)

A concept drawn from Kathryn Schulz's book Being Wrong: at the exact moment you are wrong about something, it still feels like being right. The subjective experience of error and the subjective experience of correctness are indistinguishable from the inside — realization that you were wrong only ever arrives afterward, from new evidence or someone else's pushback.

Applied to stakeholder work as a caution against over-trusting your own present confidence: "even if you're right, they have the power — you will not get what you want" unless you stay open to being shown wrong and realign, which is what makes stakeholder management matter more than simply being correct.