Why Trying to Prove a Point is Pointless
27 May 2024 · 1 min
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Stop trying to win arguments. People rarely change their minds unless they're already open to it. Offer your opinion only when someone actually wants to hear it.
Stop trying to win arguments. People rarely change their minds unless they're already open to it. Offer your opinion only when someone actually wants to hear it.
What's the point of trying to prove a point? I want you to think about that for a second. What's the point of trying to prove a point? Do you think that for some reason, because the other person or persons decided not to go back and forth with you no more, that somehow you won? Somehow you changed their perspective? 9 times out of 10, if they had a strong belief about something, they still have that belief. And they're probably not going to change their thoughts or their behavior, uh, because you said so. Now, if they do, it's because they wanted to, but 9 times out of 10, it's not because you projected your perspective onto them. So if you want your spirit to be light, give up the desire to be right. So the next time that you, uh, want to offer up your 2 cents, just make sure the person even wants change in the first place.
I was literally kicked off a Southwest flight before for being disrespectful.
