[Don Wright]

Thanks for the nice write-up. I think this is an interesting point that is not only often overlooked, but not even considered.

I also would like to add a small part to this "insight"...

Always being right also makes it difficult later on in your career. Especially when you enter discussions or during audits. When we have this mindset from school that there is a "right" answer, and it is best to get the right answer (and to put on top of it the above notion that you have been "right" a lot in your life), then it is often difficult to open yourself to critique and criticism at times when it is necessary to do so.

I often see very smart people completely close up or get defensive when they are being audited (for ISO certification, for example) or when there is a design review and their design is being examined.

It takes a lot for an intelligent person, who has been "right" most of their life, to open their minds and accept others input or opinion about how they aren't "right"...even thought that maybe they are... But, by closing themselves off so quickly, you lose a lot of valuable input that will ultimately make their idea/design/whatever better in the end.