What is your preferred method for dealing with know-it-alls?

Question: I used to be a know-it-all. Later, I learned that I didn't know it all. Now I get a kick out of showing know-it-alls that they didn't know as much as they thought they did.

Answers:
Read Plato's dialogues of Socrates. This was his specialty..keep asking questions.make them explain it and they will sound more and more ridiculous.

Other Answers:
A good question..deserves a suitable answer.I used to be something ,sort of know-it-all,and more I thought of my rightuousness,more I frustrated myself and experienced the negative reaction from the others.Right now I am only enough smart..With those around me posing like know-it-all I get rid of them so simply,showing my indifference.

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I just ignore them. Arguing is exhausting. Your still a know it all but on a different aspect. Shut up.

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Just let them say what they are going to to say and get it over, but it usually goes in one ear and out the other.

u smack them and walk away from them, saying.. ur just a stuck up know it all, who should onlky talk to stuck-up know it alls, not me

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I aim to be compassionate toward all people. I deal with the public a lot in my job and most are very easy to deal with seem to appreciate my help.

A few people try to tell me I'm doing it wrong -- usually someone from another state with different state laws. I try to be patient.

When my patience is tried, I kind of drop into "machine mode," and tend to speak with less emotion, more flatly. Sometimes I just repeat what I said each time they tell my how wrong I am.

I am glad to acknowledge when I am wrong, and that is one reason I find it easy to get along with most people -- they hate coverups (as do I) and appreciate being spoken to truthfully.

It's never my goal to prove that I am smarter than someone, just to be helpful by sharing my area of expertise.

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