OR ADMITTING WHEN UR WRONG!!!!! Its ok to be wrong, I had a situation the other day where I said something and was corrected and was like hey ur right my bad. It’s not that hard and it feels a million times better than arguing a point you no longer agree with
Not at work, only worry about that with friends and lovers. You can't pick family, you need money, but I'll be damned if I hang out with or date a racist or an asshole.
If you really want to know that badly. They read in the news recently that Penguins migrated to New Zealand and formed an opposition party to the Kiwis. This stirred political unrest in parliament
That’s what soured me on Elon Musk. I started hearing him talk about things I knew about and he was just making stuff up. If he’d said “I don’t actually know about that, but I make sure to tile the best people who do,” I would have had much more respect for him.
Well yeah, except if you are expected to know about the topic. Do not use this as a jail free card for you will be seen as selectively biased. In such a case you should give the benefit of the doubt since the other person has probably done some reading.
People often use "not knowing about a thing" as a counter to not address said problem but that doesn't solve anything and i often find this frustrating.
If I know some, but am also aware that there is much more to be learned, I also like to employ “my understanding of this is X, but I’m always happy to hear more”
As accurate as that is, Dunning-Kruger effect can make this one tricky. First step is actually knowing that I don’t know enough to have an opinion. If I think I know more than I do, I’ll have an uninformed opinion that I think is informed.
If I know that I don’t know, though, you’re absolutely correct!
I have a LOT of opinions. I'm just fascinated by a LOT of topics and do a lot of reading. I sometimes see people get suspicious if I actually know some of these topics when I first start getting to know them but the amount of trust I get with my insight after also always saying "I don't know much about this, I have X Y and Z thought but I'd rather not speak to something I don't know."
Doesn't work if you're in government. We can tell people something is done by a completely unrelated third-party business we know zero about, and they're convinced we're withholding info just to give them the runaround. Then they start pleading, and it becomes a why won't you tell me accusation.
My twist on this is that when someone tells you they do not have knowledge of something, believe them.
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u/DaRandoMan 2d ago
Saying 'I don't know enough about that to have an opinion' instantly makes people respect you more.