Ustwo

Well perhaps that is the root of your problem. You want people to know you are smart, so you try to prove it.

Your mannerisms may well convey that desire to whoever you are talking to. You may well be correct but instead of being normal conversation it sounds like you are trying to one up them.

So instead your conversation could go something like this.

X: Shrooms are bad for you.
You: Really? I thought they didn't have any long term effects?

At this point, you show you are interested in their knowledge, and at the same time they have to put up or shut up so to speak.

Who knows you might learn something you didn't know, you showed you have some knowledge of the subject, and you didn't say they were wrong. At the same time the person Mr. X was talking too now has another opinion.

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