For some people, its all about the drama.
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Some people just can't be wrong. Even when they are and they know it. That's bad, but hey, that's human nature. Its tollerable to let them think they won.
Some people just love to use every conceivable adjective they can find to make everthing seem likes its a terrible drama unfolding. Fine, eventually everybody else learns to filter out those hystronics and get past them.
Then there are some people who, once they get of hold of something that they don't think is right but others disagree have to keep harping on and talking about and debating it ad nasuem. Eventually, it just becomes too easy to tune them out.
Finally, there are just some people who want to have the intrepretation of the facts be seen as the facts. That's madding because frequently, such people seem to adjust the "facts" to suit their point. Once you call them on it, they seem to fold pretty quickly.
But you know who drives me totally nuts?
People who do all four of those at the same time! I'm sad to say it, but in my short tenure as an MVP, I've seen two cases of it.
If you're one of those people, might I suggest this short self-help program.
- Say out loud: "Nobody knows everything. Everybody has something to learn and to teach." Repeat for five minutes.
- Again: "My name is not Chicken Little and the sky is not falling." Repeat for a least five mintues.
- Next try: "I'm just looking at the bark, not the whole tree or the forest."
- Then try speaking this for another five minutes "Nobody else sees the world through my eyes... as long as their in my head."
What will you get for your efforts? Will this theraphy help you be a better person?
Frankly, I don't know. I hope it does, but if it doesn't that's fine, its achieved what I wanted it to.
It kept you busy not bothering me for 20 minutes so I could move on help others.
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Bonus points if you can tell me programming language the preceding would be an perfectly acceptable chunk of code in and what it does.