RULE TO BREAK
Hide your mistakes
One of my brothers had an argument with a friend at college over how a certain word was spelt. The argument was amicable but quite forceful, as both of them were certain they were right, and neither was prepared to let it drop. Eventually the friend said, ‘Right. I’m going to look it up in the dictionary’, and off he went to his room. When he hadn’t reappeared after five minutes, my brother went to track him down. He opened the door of the friend’s room to find him kneeling on the floor over the dictionary, with a bottle of correction fluid in his hand, looking extremely sheepish and embarrassed at being caught.24
It was clear all along that one of them was going to be wrong, even though both of them were convinced ...
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