Required reading: When you are slow, you miss the opportunity to be right. I believe in and stand by this post more than anything else I’ve written.
Logically, the post linked above also acknowledges that if you go fast, you might be wrong.
Really, you could be wrong either way. But if you go fast, and you’re wrong, then people will say you were wrong because you went fast.
Once upon a time, my Scout patrol (squad-size) in good old Troop 44 was inexplicably given five minutes to choose our mascot for the next year. With only a list naming the available animal patches we could choose from, and no phones to check our assumptions, we went with The Bobwhites. Obviously, we chose this because bobcats are badass, and bobwhites had to have just been a different name for bobcats.
Nope. Bobwhites are lame ass birds.
Since we were wrong, we spent 1999 as the lame ass bird patrol.
No grand nugget of wisdom for you on this one, just a humble acknowledgement that sometimes you might be wrong. I certainly have been; when going fast, and when going slow.
When we’re wrong but can find the right answer, we correct the record and add context. Or, we live with our wrongness and wear our bobwhite patch in shame.
But when we should be going fast … and feel like we’re on the edge of wrongness, let’s use our brains and say less, while pushing to still make it something substantial and releasable.
(Photo by Staff Sgt. Keith James, but why was this ever released on DVIDS?)
