Door A - Conan: "To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women."

Door 2 - Lennon: "For though they may be parted There is still a chance that they will see There will be an answer, let it be"

I am mostly satisfied with knowing I am right. The other person, no matter how artfully you explain to them they are wrong, will never see it for a host of reasons. I think the Internet has a lot to do with it these days. The best and worst part of the Internet is that it connects people from all over and creates virtual tribes that are self-affirming. How can you be wrong when 1,000 other people, just like you, are telling you that you are right. And they are just like you! They get you. You are all part of a like-minded tribe. We, we as tribe are right and you and your tribe is wrong. You are wrong. Because people like me tell me I am right. And they affirm that narrative on a constant basis.

Zero critical thinking, 100% emotional affirmation.

Why would you even try to convince someone they are wrong?

So, this is bad?

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My MIL, and FIL can argue endlessly about the most menial details (it's 75* outside....NO, it's only 73* outside !). It REALLY starts to wear on me, and finally I just want to jump to my feet and scream WHO THE **** CARES !

Sure are a lot of people here trying to convince others that convincing others (of how right they are) doesn't matter.

You all do know that persuasion (convincing others) and being right are two separate things, right?

I get it, if you tell yourself that you are right, but incapable of demonstrating your rightness to others, that you are simply too damn smart. Like Albert Einstein trying to explain space-time to a monkey.

When I retired from the Navy I went to work for the Army as an SES. I lasted about four months and decided I had had enough of large bureaucracies.

The Army folks were great, they really were, but the whole Pentagon swirl beat me down to a nub.

I decided to work only in small companies that I had ownership in and a say.

That and I wanted to work with people of my own choosing, who have the intellectual capacity, like me, to admit when they are wrong. Life is not a zero sum affair, mistakes will be made.

I got out of the day-to-day management of a company I currently own 35% of two years ago because one of the partners became a self-licking ice cream cone. We took the company basically from the grave to nearly $7M a year in revenue at terrific margins. It is a shame, really: Our revenues are now down over 50% since I left. At the shareholders meeting a month ago the numbers were not good and the natives got restless, asking me to return.

I am thinking about it but I probably won't. I do not miss the travel and I may have someone who wants to buy my common shares if we can restructure "leadership".

My current company that I bought into when I left the other one is just a fantastically flat, open, honest group. We just finished a engineering meeting with a project we are doing for the Army: A bunch of little UAS inside a ground launched missile...the SWARM is ejected from the missile at a predetermined point and the little UAS have about 35 minutes to go do some really cool stuff.