How are you going to deal with person who is insisting that he is right?

There is a line in harry potter which says that" People find it hard to forgive you for being right that for being wrong" .. I think the ones who defend themselves a lot have mentally admitted the contrary but the ego just doesnt let them speak it. Sometimes, it is best to state our views as clearly as possible and tell them that this is just an option or a suggestion instead of making them believe that we strongly oppose them . Once the other person realises that there s no pressure to accept the contrary the need to defend and stick onto what they have said/believed also diminishes. Slowly try to find a middleground . If the arguement continues ,weigh the situation in terms of the person and the subject. Continue or discontinue the arguement based on whichever is more important to you . No matter what , it is very important to be polite and responsive to such people for they tend to take the contradictions very personal . Convey as early as possible that he /she is not judged by the issue but it is only the issue where the dissent is.

Well, it depends. If the person is close to me. I will tell him that he might be right but he won't be the only one who is right. Maybe we just have different ways of handling things. I will tell him if he find out he's not so right as he thought and need my help, I will be there because I care for him. If we are not close. I will say nothing put on a big smile on my face but actually laugh at him as he's an idiot in my mind. I won't get in his way but I will let him know that he is the only person who take responsibility for the consequences.

I was asking myself the same question when I read your post. I have a friend and we don´t have the same political views. For a long time I tried not to touch the subject, as I knew that he will not even listen to another line of thought. I don´t want to "change" him; I want him to listen to me and know what I think. I just has a letter from him (he´s abroad with his wife) and he was extremelly rude to those who did not think like him. I responded in a nice way, but stating that all people deserved respect and to be listened. If this letter does not work, I will talk about the weather with him from now on, but I will try not to see him too much. It will be a pity, but as you say, I don´t like to have people around that make me feel irritated.

my father is like this...he wouldn;t accept any other opinion but his. this is why I avoid getting to this kind of discusions with him. it gives you headaches and there is no point to getting there

Hi Masang People which they only have there own world i called them bossy. NO!.. i cant live with that. So strange!.. I was been with someone who seems like that but i cant take it because i am also a person who try react and get along with i am in my right way. You can't be happy with that so then try to a part of him before everything might be a big trouble.

I usually face that everyday. Ends up in an argument and i just give up in the end. Give the person time to think so he/she realises later or if doesn't will face it themselves.

I will avoid such a person.There is no point talking or reasoning to such a person for they have closed minds.They will never understand or accept the others view.It is always ,I am right and the others are wrong with them.

Everybody encounters persons such as those even me, when I encounter such persons what I do first is I listen to his/her point of view and verify it then I state my own point of view then I will provide a solution that will benefit both parties however if he keeps on insisting his ways and would not bother to listen to what I have to say, I then choose to ignore such persons for I refuse to be stressed by those kind of superiority-complex chauvinistic individuals.

I have a friend just like that, she's quite judgmental and sticks firmly to her own opinions. When ever I try to combat her opinions and share my own ideas, she'll ignore it and keep insisting about her own views and it really does irritate me. She's pretty headstrong and nothing gets in her way until she sees before her very own eyes. We had an argument before and I actually had experience in what we were arguing but she kept saying she was right even though she had no idea what she was talking about. I don't want to waste my breathe and time so I simply let her win the fight. If the person you're dealing with is too hot headed just let them be. Let them experience it in order for them to learn. Because it's hard to persuade someone who thinks they're always right and that their decisions are final.

I find it strange that this is the first time you meet someone who claims to be right. Perhaps it was the first one who insisted on it and did not accept what you said just right away? If it comes to right and wrong there is seldom a right or wrong. Right is the way you see it or the way the other person is seeing it. You won't win this so take your lesson out of it. Try to discover how come the other person is saying he is right. He is even willing to prove it to you (what more do you need?). Try to see to his eyes, who knows you will discover that your right or even the right of the biggest group of people is not the only right at all.

In socail life we meet almost every kind of person, also of these type. The problem with type of person is that they never listen to the other person, whatever the other person says they just say that it is wrong and now listen to me!!! To talking with these people is always irritating. I listen to them with much patience and if they are right I appreciate and if not them I give them my idea about that thing.