When someone disagrees with me, I do not have to immediately start revising what I just said. People don't want me to always agree with them. They can sense this is phony. They can sense I am trying to control them I am agreeing with them to make them like me. They feel 'I don't want to exist to like you. I DON'T exist to like you.'
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