The confident wrong answer

I corrected Priya during a meeting today with the confidence of someone who had personally invented the subject. Five minutes later, we discovered I was completely wrong. I wanted the floor to swallow me. Priya simply smiled and said , "Happens to everyone," before helping me fix the report. I apologised after the meeting, expecting her to tease me, but she barely seemed bothered. Somehow that made me feel worse and better at the same time. I had spent years believing that being respected meant never appearing foolish. Today, I discovered that the only person demanding perfection from me was myself.