This is obvious and non-controversial when the topic is "How does my significant other consume burgers?", but the set of things that don't matter at all is much, much larger than it is widely assumed to be and overlaps with the set of things people are passionate about.
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It also overlaps heavily with the set of things that people are incentivized to convince you matters.
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Fairly related to my belief that there are three parts to being right: Right facts, right audience, right time. Just having the facts right is not enough. I keep this in mind constantly these days—you wanna argue about an burger? There may be a time for that, but not all the time
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a caveat to both your good takes on this: sometimes when someone is inclined to abusively manipulate you, it really helps to stick to your guns about little things it can either set up a boundary that you aren’t one to mess with, or tank the whole relationship which can be good
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but deciding to not care about things that don’t matter IS the effective choice

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@amyhoy "Do you want to be right, or do you want to be happy" — Ellen GroeneveldThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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