Do they not still teach how to write a concise paper where you state your premise at the start, and then logically structure the rest of the paper as a support for the premise? — Terrapin Station
By being humble you retract a foothold from those around you who would hope to grow through conflicting ideas.(well conflict in general but in our time in my location conflict happens far less outside the conceptual realms, thankfully.) By not showing what you've got, being a little abrasive and standing out all you do is stay "safe". Not even safe really, what is safety? You're just staying the same, which you for some reason believe to be safer than to be somewhere else, which is often just a silly belief, as well as worse than where you'd be if you weren't such a cowardly humble mess. Just show off and try to prove your point or get proven wrong like jeez, stop caring so much what others think of you and stand by your truth, and if you are proven wrong then cut that truth out of you. There are certainly levels of "class" when it comes to showing off and one could certainly express their opinion or idea while being as humble as possible, that is ideal. But sometimes people just need a punch in the throat, "Your idea is wrong and you are an idiot for having it, though with that being said you can improve and cut out that faulty bit of data and better yourself by adopting this new belief." Pain is not always to be avoided, sometimes it's best to just hurt people mentally, grow the fuck up stop thinking what you believe must have intrinsic value. If a piece of you is broken or decayed you cut it out and move on, stop holding onto some disgusting long dead corpse of an idea so you can fit in with some cult-ture. You can ask the "wrong questions", you can be absolutely worthless in some areas and certainly are. You MUST learn to recognize cognitive ability and wisdom and when someone who has that or is more educated in a particular field than you, then you must concede. — DrProphet
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