If you’ve dealt with someone who always wanted to be right, how did you handle that?

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  3. let them be right and move on.

    “i insist the sky is green.”
    “how about that, so it is. anyway, what do you want for lunch?”

    “i definitely did turn the light off before i left the room.”
    “ok, how about that, we need to keep an extra eye on this switch then, since it flips on its own sometimes.”

    at the end of the day it’s only about how much of your own energy you’re willing to give the other person, and how much effort it’s worth to you. the answer is usually very little in most cases, i’ve found.

  4. I’ve just ran into it with friends of friends, randoms at parties and similar, and I’ve just avoided talking to them and not allowed them any closer to me. I do not want people like that in my social circle, their issues aren’t mine to handle or deal with.

  5. My friend is this way. Even in the most absurd or obvious situation she will not see or accept she is or was wrong. I just let her be.

    She has paid the price. There is always a price to pay for being stubborn. You loose connections, friends, jobs, etc.

  6. Try to limit my interactions with them, that type of personality is beyond irritating.

  7. Limit interactions cause they are gonna suck energy and life outta you. Also admit you can be wrong, or maybe you don’t know enough to form opinions on stuff. (Model appropriate behavior)

  12. take the “okay, buddy *head pat*” approach. just passively agree and it’ll work itself out

  13. I’m also that way so I just say that I agree to disagree and just start telling my own self all of the reasons why I’m right, in my head ofc.

  15. Why are you talking about my mom? I just say stuff like “I didn’t write the study” or “I didnt invent math.” I have known her for 38 years, she aint gonna change.

  18. Well it depends on the person. I have a very dear friend that will argue anything to death and they insist they are right – even when they are wrong about actual facts. We’ve actually had pretty open conversations about this part of their personality, why it is so, etc. I have resorted to looking things up on my phone to show them they are in fact wrong. This thing they are saying is a fact or a law or whatever is incorrect. It has to be done sometimes because you can’t argue something that isn’t factual or spread this misinformation as fact. When it’s a matter of opinion, then, you know – I have mine, they have theirs and we can disagree. However, for most people, I don’t deal with it at all because it’s generally futile and a waste of my time. I’ve had people in my life where I’m willing to address it and people that I’m not, so I guess there isn’t one answer to this question. I will be assertive in letting ANYONE know that their opinion is not a fact and that sometimes the narratives they choose to express are false, but always in a polite and non-confrontational way. It’s not necessary to be rude about it. And I keep an open mind when someone does the same to me. We are all passionate about things and we all experience cognitive dissonance to some extent.

  21. I don’t. It’s a waste of time to try and reason with them so I avoid them completely or just brush off the things they say knowing full well they are wrong. If they cross boundaries and are rude about it I fully engage in matching energies if I’m in the mood.

  22. Coworker situation. They’re the smartest, the brightest, everyone else is an idiot, they don’t make mistakes … (Yet they do make mistakes, but they just blame shift it to whatever it sticks to)

    It’s not confidence, it’s insecurity. They always want an audience, a platform to complain and vent why they’re so much smarter/better than whoever, always needs an audience to toot their own horn. Very low emotional IQ and self awareness IMO. Reminiscent of a small child “Look at me! Look at me!”

    I mostly tune it out, grey rock it or just quietly go back to work and not say anything. I realized they really do think they’re fabulous person Right and they’ll suck up whatever oxygen they can talking about it and painting themselves the hero.

    I truly don’t believe they realize how off putting and alienating it is and why others don’t want to converse/work with them.

  24. I have a friend like this. Still working on it. Challenge them, state my conflicting opinion and why I feel that way, and eventually give up because there are some topics that they will *never* budge on. Change the subject I guess.

  25. If they think 2 + 2 = 7, agree, and change topics and move on 💁🏼‍♀️ lol of course if they are always like this, def create distance from them. Energy vampires 😑

  28. Let them be. They’ll eat dust on their own time. I used to be very stubborn and always had to be right. Till I realised (thru many many trials and errors ) that people are trying to advise me not to make me feel dumb or weak or make fun of me. They actually wanna help. I kept walking into walls lol till I started to listen. So, just let them be

  29. I let them go. The need to be right is extremely off-putting and it screams “I’M INSECURE”.

    They get extremely **PETTTTTYYYY** when proven wrong. (This is my favorite to witness lol)

    They don’t understand the concept of agree to disagree and when to apply it.

    They reject solid facts when it doesn’t align with what they *tH1Nk*.

    They’re usually so very arrogant.

    They belittle you for not knowing something.

    They’re 100% sure of themselves at all times. So if you get home from work and you find shit in the toilet and they were there all day and you didn’t even poop that day, it still must have been you.

    They must always butt in and highlight “I knew that”, no matter how irrelevant they and what they knew happens to be.

    10/10 would not recommend. Unattractive. Insecure. Immature.

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