If the behavior is chronic and unproductive, decide how much engagement is worthwhile.
Sometimes planting a seed is better than trying to change their mind in the moment.
Some people are resistant to new perspectives. If they refuse to engage, focus on managing your own reaction rather than changing theirs.
Choose your battles: Not every conversation is worth having. Consider whether it's worth investing time and energy into trying to change someone's mind.
- The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
- People are frugal in guarding their personal property; but as soon as it comes to squandering time they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy.
- He who spares the wicked injures the good.
- No loss should be more regrettable to us than losing our time, for it's irretrievable.