the.com/rethink
Admitting your first thought was a rough draft, not a verdict.
means To reconsider a decision or idea and possibly change it.
from A simple, transparent compound — 're-' (again, back) plus 'think' — built in English rather than borrowed. 'Re-' comes from Latin, where it already meant repetition or returning to something, and English has bolted it onto native verbs for centuries to make words like 'rebuild' or 'redo.' 'Rethink' itself seems to be a fairly modern formation, gaining real traction as a noun ('we need a rethink') and verb only in the last century or so — making it one of those words whose parts are ancient but whose assembly is recent.
- not reversal
- keeps the goal, changes the route
- ego cost
- requires saying past-you was incomplete
- best timing
- before launch, not after the apology