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>"Choose your battles" does make sense It's a phrase that implies you should fight less. Which leaves you ill equipped at fighting when it matters to you.
by fnord123 9y ago
>"Choose your battles" does make sense
It's a phrase that implies you should fight less. Which leaves you ill equipped at fighting when it matters to you.
- RealityVoid 9y agoI think it rather implies you should fight smarter. Arguing with people that will only get more entrenched in their oppinion the more the argument goes is couter productive no matter how right you are. So if you need to learn that, by all means, argue with those poeple untill you get it. But afterwards, learn when to save your breath.
- manicdee 9y agoTo me it means only pick fights that you have a chance of winning. You don't learn to fight better by getting yourself killed.
- beagle3 9y agoNo, it assumes you have finite resources and finite bridges to burn, and advises that you do the resource and bridge allocation wisely.