I actually had an aloud laugh at, "A lot of people don't want to be proven wrong even if that means avoiding the truth."
I actually give him credit in that I _have_ noticed he's improved regarding walking away when proven wrong, albeit without acknowledging having learned something new.
Still, I couldn't help but be amused by that self-description being sold as a description of "a lot of people".
It's true that this is a trait that many if not most people suffer to various degrees, but 99% of people call a spade a spade if you hang it in their face. After having done that enough in the past, I realized that at the time he was the type that would argue with a dictionary about definitions, the type of person you could have a debate with about the first letter of the English alphabet and who could continue to say they see B first even with you hanging the alphabet chart in front of them. Absolute zero chance of conceding having been wrong about even a single detail of anything. I'm glad he's doing better now.
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I actually had an aloud laugh at, "A lot of people don't want to be proven wrong even if that means avoiding the truth."
I actually give him credit in that I _have_ noticed he's improved regarding walking away when proven wrong, albeit without acknowledging having learned something new.
Still, I couldn't help but be amused by that self-description being sold as a description of "a lot of people".
It's true that this is a trait that many if not most people suffer to various degrees, but 99% of people call a spade a spade if you hang it in their face. After having done that enough in the past, I realized that at the time he was the type that would argue with a dictionary about definitions, the type of person you could have a debate with about the first letter of the English alphabet and who could continue to say they see B first even with you hanging the alphabet chart in front of them. Absolute zero chance of conceding having been wrong about even a single detail of anything. I'm glad he's doing better now.