Most often, when I’m talking to someone and getting frustrated, it’s because we’re not actually having a conversation. Instead, the person I’m talking to is try to school me on some subject.
Being schooled means being told why you’re wrong. An “all-knowing” teacher who doesn’t think the students in his class know anything, schools his students. A schooler expects you to shut up and listen.
It takes respect for another person’s thinking and experience to hold a conversation, and it takes confidence in your own thinking to resist being schooled.
It’s all about who’s doing the thinking. Ideally, it’s both of you.
