This is going to sound VERY conceited, but...?

Question

...don't you sometimes feel that EVERYBODY else is wrong, and you do have a point but nobody sees it?

Any examples?

Answer 1

lived my whole life that way... why should it be any different now? :-)

Something to ponder: very intelligent and intuitive thinkers can sometimes jump to right the correct conclusion the average person needs a 30 minute to 7 year explanation to get. Often they hit the nail right on the head while others are agonizing over the "exact" meaning of a word. Doesn't mean they are better; just that their challenge is to learn to explain things better when they get this insight! Our truly great leaders did this.

Example: I was noticing the ffects of climate change in my own backyard 10 years before it became a scathing debate. There never has been any question in my mind that we are endangering the ecosystem of the planet; I knew by what I had observed in my years spent studying nature on my own. I couldn't explain it though, until scientists starting putting proof on paper, and in attending the seminars, I ahd an "Aha!" moment with data to back me up.

Answer 2

Yes but not everybody for can't reach,talk to everybody but just those around me-happens sometimes?example-attempting to convince 4 people in the group -that was the group -and myself made 5. that cats are better off kept inside and so will songbirds and so on. They have this false belief to not allow cat outside is depriving it-nonsense. This usually happens when I or anyone else has a strong opinion that is not held by anyone else in the immediate group. Like having Jehovah Witnesses come into ones house and one can show them in the bible that Jesus Christ and St.Michael the Archangel are not the same person but they steadfastly hold on to their mistaken belief that they are the same-again nonsense. Conceited only comes into play when one is of the belief that all of ones beliefs are beyond question because also hold the belief that can't make a wrong judgment or form wrong opinion,belief. Usually if conceit enters into then the sometimes is usually most or even all of the time

Answer 3

Oh yeah. I don't know about everybody, necessarily, but where my head is at most days the company is sufficiently rarefied to qualify me as lonely. Two good examples from Y!A (so you can check, if you like) are the question I asked about gun control for police and one I currently have out on, um, cuisine. The gun one, by my count, 21 out of 24 people answered a question other than the one I was asking, and the other one on, um, food and ethics, only two out of 13 bothered to read the question, apparently. It's a little disheartening, but I deal with it by first, knowing there a a few people out there who hold themselves to the same standards I do for holding and expressing ideas, even if we don't agree, and second, by being confident in the product of my own mind. It ain't bragging if you can prove it, pardner, if only to yourself. I learned long ago that what people think only occasionally coincides with what's right, and sometimes that's only accidental. If you have that feeling that everybody else is wrong, you want to seriously examine the possibility that you're correct. Peace!

Answer 4

Yes sometimes feel as though some people just don't get it. I am not saying that I am right all the time but if there is not enough knowledge that I have on something in conversation, then I feel that you either learn something or you keep you thoughts to yourself saving you from looking like a jackass. And yes , I do back up everything that I have educated myself to talk about. Maybe you can teach something to somebody.

Answer 5

Yes - I am developing a business that takes a completely different approach than what is considered commonly accepted practice. The truth and workability of this is backed up by practically two years of statistical data, yet if you were to ask the average person I should be in the loony bin. Why? Because I thought of it first.

Answer 6

My roommate in college and I looked at each other one day after shaking our heads at some idiots we had to put up with and she said, "It's so hard to be right all the time". It is, isn't it? You don't want everyone to think you're conceited, but you really are right and they are wrong. It is then that we must work on our humility, and let them humiliate themselves, kind of in the same way.

Answer 7

If no one sees it but you, why do you believe it exists? You should watch the movie "A Beautiful Mind". A true story based on a fellow who sees things no one else does. By the end of his life he makes anyone new introduce themselves to someone he allready knows so that he cannot be fooled by the phantoms in his head. It seems this methood might help you.

Answer 8

yes, I'm currently in a debacle with some dude who got offended by the answer I gave to his question requesting what magazine was Burt Reynolds naked in????? regardless, it's going on about email number 25 for now. I KNOW I wasn't wrong in this one, childish, perhaps; wrong, don't think so.

Answer 9

Yes, I usually think everyone is wrong. When I have a point and nobody agrees it is usually because they are envious of my intelligence.

Answer 10

Yea. Or sometimes it's not that they are wrong, but that I have a point and they are just not knowing yet, they are not "enlightened" or are ignorant or not "on the same level" so they don't get it yet or can't comprehend it.