{"id":97786,"date":"2019-05-29T11:55:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T15:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=97786"},"modified":"2019-05-30T10:44:14","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T14:44:14","slug":"wrong-may-right-praise-stubbornness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wrong-may-right-praise-stubbornness\/","title":{"rendered":"When \u2018Wrong\u2019 may be Right: In Praise of Stubbornness"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been tying my shoes the \u201cwrong\u201d way for over 30 years.<\/p>\n

Let me explain: I\u2019m in kindergarten, and our teacher is teaching us to tie shoes. I don\u2019t get it. I can\u2019t do it. I try the floppy cardboard foot with the laces woven through. I try my own shoes. Either way, the rabbit won\u2019t go around the tree or through the hole, or whatever it is the rabbit is supposed to do. Either way, the laces won\u2019t tie. My teacher chides those who get it wrong, and I don\u2019t want to be chided.<\/p>\n

Then, it hits me. I don\u2019t have to tie my shoes my teacher\u2019s way. I just have to make it look like<\/em> I tied my shoes her way. I tie a knot. I make two loops. I knot those loops, and, voila, laces tied.<\/p>\n

Decades later, my fraud would be vindicated when a scientific study, \u201cThe roles of impact and inertia in the failure of a shoelace knot,\u201d (I swear I am not making this up) would prove once and for all that the way we\u2019re taught to tie shoes as children is careless, inefficient and leaves laces prone to loosening. My impromptu method, devised to avoid getting yelled at by an impatient teacher, turned out to be the smarter, more efficient method after all. Sometimes stubbornness isn\u2019t such a bad thing.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m talking about the times your method isn\u2019t wrong, merely different, when different can be a good thing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

First, though, let me define my terms. When I say stubbornness, I\u2019m not talking about ambition, grit or the many characteristics under the umbrella of perseverance for which most people already hold the utmost admiration. Nor am I referring to the kind of stubbornness surrounding strict adherence to a suspect or outdated tradition, times when the stubborn individual might be better served by evolution. No, I\u2019m talking about the need, at times, to fly in the face of unfounded tradition. I\u2019m talking about resilience when you\u2019re waiting for the world to catch up with your way of thinking. I\u2019m talking about the times your method isn\u2019t wrong, merely different, when different can be a good thing.<\/p>\n

Maybe shoelaces are a silly example. Here are some better ones:<\/p>\n

Swedish pro golfer Jesper Parnevik, one of the finest golfers in the world, freely admits to holding his clubs all wrong.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy knuckles go white,\u201d he says in an interview with Golf<\/em> magazine. \u201cI\u2019ve putted with a glove forever, but I\u2019ve worn putter grips all the way down to the metal. That\u2019s a little weird.\u201d Weird<\/em> may be the word, but that weirdness hasn\u2019t kept Parnevik from netting over $15 million in career earnings on the PGA Tour.<\/p>\n

Or consider iconic painter Frida Kahlo. As art historian Gannit Ankori points out in Imaging Her Selves: Frida Kahlo’s Poetics of Identity and Fragmentation<\/em>, Kahlo, in her lifetime, was known mostly as the eccentric wife of painter Diego Rivera. She died unappreciated and virtually unknown outside of Mexico before several books and retrospectives resurrected her work and shined a long overdue spotlight on her art. But living in Rivera\u2019s shadow didn\u2019t keep Kahlo from completing a staggering 143 paintings before she died at the age of 47.<\/p>\n

Parnevik and Kahlo are outliers, you might argue. Consider, then, something that most of us do most days: type.<\/p>\n

Numerous experiments, including Finland\u2019s Aalto University study \u201cHow We Type: Movement Strategies and Performance in Everyday Typing,\u201d have shown that self-taught typists can type just as fast with as few as six fingers as professional typists, trained under the traditional touch-typing method, who type with 10. What matters, in the end, isn\u2019t the \u201cbest\u201d method but muscle memory and commitment to a single typing style.<\/p>\n

Whether famous or workaday, sometimes we must work against conventional wisdom in order to achieve a desired outcome.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Whether famous or workaday, sometimes we must work against conventional wisdom in order to achieve a desired outcome.<\/p>\n

Stubbornness, of course, is risky. There\u2019s the risk that holding your club your way will injure your back. There\u2019s the risk that you\u2019ll paint your way into obscurity. There\u2019s the risk that you\u2019ll type your way and flunk that typing-speed test. Always there\u2019s the risk that your way is not the better way, that things are one way for a reason, that you\u2019re making things harder for yourself than they have to be. Always, always there\u2019s the risk that you\u2019re wrong.<\/p>\n

As leadership consultant Muriel Maignan Wilkins points out, stubbornness carries with it the risk of Pyrrhic victory. Proving a thing can<\/em> be done your way doesn\u2019t necessarily prove your way was best. In short, if you\u2019re stubborn about everything, you\u2019re doing stubbornness all wrong. As Wilkins notes, there are times when it\u2019s far better to listen to others, synthesize ideas, consider tradition, stay flexible, compromise, and even admit when you\u2019re mistaken.<\/p>\n

My point, then, is simple but no less profound for being so, I hope. Despite platitudes and T-shirts, movie quotes and what passes for wisdom these days, there\u2019s rarely one right way to do a thing. Where a prevailing method reigns, there are nearly always practitioners achieving at high levels in opposition to the dominant or \u201cbest practices\u201d methodology.<\/p>\n

In other words, just because there are many ways to do a thing wrong<\/em> doesn\u2019t mean there\u2019s only one way to do a thing right<\/em>. And sometimes your<\/em> way is just waiting to become the new<\/em> dominant way of doing a thing, as when American athlete Dick Fosbury, dismissed early on as the \u201cworld\u2019s laziest high jumper,\u201d won the 1968 Olympic gold medal with his signature \u201cFosbury Flop\u201d and changed the face of the sport forever.<\/p>\n

All of which is good news for me. After all, at 40 years old, I only use seven fingers to type, and I still tie my shoes my way.<\/p>\n

David James Poissant<\/em><\/strong> is <\/em>an associate professor at the University of Central Florida where he teaches in the MFA program in creative writing.\u00a0 He can be reached at <\/em>David.Poissant@ucf.edu<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

The UCF Forum<\/strong> is a weekly series of opinion columns presented by UCF Communications & Marketing. A new column is posted each Wednesday at <\/em>http:\/\/today.ucf.edu and then broadcast between 7:50 and 8 a.m. Sunday on WUCF-FM (89.9). The columns are the opinions of the writers, who serve on the UCF Forum panel of faculty members, staffers and students for a year. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I have been tying my shoes the \u201cwrong\u201d way for over 30 years. Let me explain: I\u2019m in kindergarten, and our teacher is teaching us to tie shoes. I don\u2019t get it. I can\u2019t do it. I try the floppy cardboard foot with the laces woven through. I try my own shoes. 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