This book helped me when I was younger. Most importantly, it taught me the "don't correct people when they say something wrong" part.
Y'see, when you correct someone when they say something WRONG JUST FACTUALLY INCORRECT WIKIPEDIA IT YOU ARROGANT WRONG WRONG WRONG they don't suddenly change course and agree with you. They don't thank you and correct themselves. They don't say, "Oh, my bad, I'll check online tonight to see if you're right." They get unhappy. They get resentful. They feel embarrassed. They are resistant. They don't like you more. They feel like you just shamed them. They view you as an underminer.
What this book does is encourage you instead to let it go. Catalogue in your head that they are WRONG WRONG SO WRONG FACTUALLY UNTRUE WRONG, say nothing, and allow this person to show off how intelligent they are to others even if they are wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong just because they are wrong does not mean I should correct them in front of their hot new girlfriend or doting bro friends just because they are WRONG.
You will be less likely to get on someone's bad side that way.
(My application of this wisdom is sporadic at best.)
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Y'see, when you correct someone when they say something WRONG JUST FACTUALLY INCORRECT WIKIPEDIA IT YOU ARROGANT WRONG WRONG WRONG they don't suddenly change course and agree with you. They don't thank you and correct themselves. They don't say, "Oh, my bad, I'll check online tonight to see if you're right." They get unhappy. They get resentful. They feel embarrassed. They are resistant. They don't like you more. They feel like you just shamed them. They view you as an underminer.
What this book does is encourage you instead to let it go. Catalogue in your head that they are WRONG WRONG SO WRONG FACTUALLY UNTRUE WRONG, say nothing, and allow this person to show off how intelligent they are to others even if they are wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong just because they are wrong does not mean I should correct them in front of their hot new girlfriend or doting bro friends just because they are WRONG.
You will be less likely to get on someone's bad side that way.
(My application of this wisdom is sporadic at best.)