The smartest people are those who acquire knowledge by mistake. In attempts to boost my IQ scores, therefore, I strive to err daily. This week’s lesson was how to win friends and influence people. Reading Dale Carnegie’s book would have given me unfair advantages. So I didn’t. This week’s boo-boos (so far):
Point out your English professor’s misspellings, preferably in front of his class.
Point out your husband’s grammatical bloopers, preferably in front of his boss.
Point out your boss’s mathematical slip-ups, preferably in front of his clients.
To err is human; pointing out other people’s errors, a stupid mistake.