Eating My Own Words – One Byte at a Time

I don’t like to be wrong. Even worse, I don’t like to get caught being wrong. Even worse than being wrong, and being caught being wrong, is when it’s your spouse who’s right and you are not. This most often happens when I’ve told her a particular piece of technology, hardware or software, can’t do something. A few minutes later I’ll hear a triumphant, “Hah!” after she Googles it and discovers that it can do exactly what I convinced myself (but not her) it could not. The next thing I’ll hear is a polite, “Make it so.”

What can a Certified Legal Nurse Consultant learn from this? Exactly what I’ve learned (repeatedly – because I am a slow learner). And that is to stop prejudging technology. Either something will do what you want it to do, or it won’t do what you want it to do or it can be made to do what you want it to do (with a little bit of work). Getting it to work for your legal nurse consulting business is what’s important – it doesn’t matter who figures it out. I just wish it was me.

So, my CLNC^® amigos, the next time you find yourself confidently proclaiming, “It can’t do that,” you better Google it yourself first – because it just might do that after all. Then, if you can make it do what you need, you can take a second to do the Engineer’s Victory Dance, and celebrate the success (together). Remember though, it’s always good to be right – just don’t be too right, if you know what I mean…

Keep on techin’,

Tom

P.S. Comment here and share your own experience with being wrong, or with being right.