Source: It’s Not Enough to Be Right. You Also Have to Be Kind. | Forge (Medium), by Ryan Holiday
the central conceit of a dangerous assumption we seem to have made as a culture these days: that being right is a license to be a total, unrepentant asshole.
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I thought if I was just overwhelmingly right enough, I could get people to listen. … Yet, no amount of yelling or condescension or trolling is going to fix any of this. It never has and never will.
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it’s so much easier to be certain and clever than it is to be nuanced and nice. … But putting yourself in their shoes, kindly nudging them to where they need to be, understanding that they have emotional and irrational beliefs just like you have emotional and irrational beliefs—that’s all much harder. So is not writing off other people.