Only in this case, you’ll want to do so without putting the Think-They-Know-It-All on the defensive.” Action Plan for Dealing with a Think-They-Know-It-All Personīrinkman and Kirschner provide prescriptive guidance for dealing with Think-They-Know-It-Alls: “Your goal is to catch them in their act and give their bad ideas the proverbial hook, just as bad acts were removed from the stage in Vaudeville days. Your goal in dealing with a difficult person who demonstrates the bad behavior of a Think-They-Know-It-All is to give their bad ideas the hook, and take them off the stage. Your Goal in Dealing with a Think-They-Know-It-All Person
Rick Kirschner write about how to deal with people that behave like Think-They-Know-It-Alls.
In Dealing with People You Can’t Stand: How to Bring Out the Best in People at Their Worst, Dr. They might even suffer from the the Dunning-Kruger effect (dumb people don’t know they’re dumb.) They are addicted to exaggeration as an attention-getting technique. They know how to learn just enough about a subject to sound like they know what they are talking about. Think-They-Know-It-All people can’t fool all the people all the time.īut they can fool some of the people enough of the time, and enough of the people all of the time – all for the sake of getting some attention. “It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.” - Mark Twain