There are a plethora of self-help books that consist of different methods of managing one’s life, one’s money, one’s health and one’s surroundings. There are even more cross-confident analysts (yes, I’m looking at you, Rapports Mats Knutson) who, without trembling at the cuff, comment on all the crucial political decisions that are made.
Of course, it is good to rely on those who hopefully know a little more than yourself. But sometimes you wonder: are there really unambiguous answers to everything? Are there a right and a wrong? Isn’t most of what you do a little on the feel, in the hope that the future will give a right?
In some respects, there is, after all, right and wrong. Great thinkers like the Canadian Jordan B Peterson (now I’m a little ironic) have realized this and suggest that you get up and make the bed every day, and it’s probably more right than wrong in any case.
Although I have heard that you should air the bedding first and not make a bed while the bed is warm, when I think about it.
But the rest of life, politics and the world are in any case more of a seesaw, and therefore I now want to launch the self-help method “Surrounded by cross-confident analysts”, especially suitable for an election year.
1. When meeting a cross-confident analyst, be careful. Be prepared that everything you say will be met with a smile and a “well, it really is not so”, after which an eternal lecture takes place.
2. Listen interested, but not too interested. The cross-confident can in the worst case perceive you as a possible disciple and want to impart to you all his knowledge about, for example, which vegetable is life-threatening and what you absolutely must vote for, and then you risk dying of boredom.
3. Do not look too skeptical. It can give the surefire reason to start machine gun fire from the hip.
4. Do not say no. Cross-confident people are only happier to be able to argue their case, and see every attempt at conversation as a blow that must be won.
5. Feel free to quote Björn Natthiko Lindeblad, whose autobiography “I can be wrong” is just about that. In the worst case, the cross-confident will then want the most wrong, because for the cross-confident it is usually about winning. But then you can agree with all your might!
6. Realize that even cross-confident people can be right sometimes. Bitter, but true.
Read more kåserier by Lotta O, for example about how the garlic press put pressure on her life.