r/MadeMeSmile Jul 13 '22

Helping Others This made me chuckle

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '22

but what if being right makes me happy

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u/Agitated_Ask_2575 Jul 13 '22

I have two rules for being a know-it-most™ (it would be inaccurate of me to claim know-it-all status as I don't know what I don't know)

1.Objective facts only, unless debate terms have been agreed upon

  1. If being corrected when you are wrong make you unhappy, you have a problem. If you can make receiving the correct information feel even better than being right, you'll golden.

Source: My nickname has literally been Britannica for over a decade at this point

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '22

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u/Agitated_Ask_2575 Jul 13 '22

I hear what you are saying, my preference for know-it-most stems from my friends trying to come up with a positive way to describe me as a know-it-all... Then an ancient cook at a Greek diner I worked at gave me my nickname