Do not correct a fool or he will hate you, correct a wise man and he will appreciate you.

BRUCE LEE

Have you ever tried to correct a fool?

How well did that experience go for you?

When someone is assuredly trying to establish their importance, they are quick to ascribe to the variables which they believe will reinforce their supposition of the concept they are putting forwards.

The reality is that any fool is more likely to gravitate towards easy pathways to reinforce and reassert their beliefs and understandings, such that they may feel as if they are speaking with authority, when in fact, they may very well just be parroting old adages, which may have long since been proven untrue.

Continuing to engage with a fool is, in many cases, a waste of one’s time and energy, for within the fool’s orientation lies a disdain for seeking deeper truths, when it is so much easier for that fool to rely upon variables at their immediate disposal. Therefore, rather than challenging themselves in a quest for self improvement, they bolster their own sense of self importance through recitation of anything that might seem plausible to them, no matter how impossible that might be to anybody with half a brain.

Conversely, in discussions with intelligent people, you will most likely discover that they are pleased to learn of your understanding of something more advanced than that of which they were already certain, because in your explanation, their overall swath of intelligence works even more fluidly than it had previously for your having added information of importance and relevance to their own internal understanding.

When we are working to find our own pathway through life and aiming to supplement that pathway with a continuous aggregation of valuable information, we would be most wise to recognize that someone who is potentially contradicting what we might be asserting, or adding to that assertion, could potentially be expanding our own resources going forward.

To fail to do so would be foolish.

Happy Tuesday!