• xantoxis@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    It’s the complaining about it–asserting your correctness to everyone around you–that makes someone the asshole.

    Everyone always thinks they’re right. If you didn’t think you were right to act a certain way, you would do something different! Acknowledging afterwards that you were wrong and made a mistake is what makes someone tolerable.

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      9 months ago

      I don’t know about that. I certainly think I’m right when I do something, but I have a healthy dose of imposter syndrome, so I tend to do a lot of testing before hand, and when something goes wrong I assume it’s my fault until I can prove otherwise.

      It always seems strange to me when people need to be proven wrong. Usually when I’m wrong, I’m the person who figures it out, because I always assume problems are my fault.

      The weird thing is, this leads to an enormous amount of trust in me by others, which I find exceedingly uncomfortable.