True wisdom lies in knowing when you should stop beating your head against a concrete wall and consider how you should manage a problem rather than how you might frankly solve that problem. Implicit in the previous statement, of course, is recognition that certain intractable, refractory problems cannot be “solved” in the classic sense and thus must be managed in the best way possible. In other words, fight only battles that are technically winnable and leave the rest for dumb people to agonize over and determinedly wage. “Dumb” and “stubborn” are virtually and for all practical purposes interchangeable words, thus toiling to convince people of this ilk anything is an exercise in utter futility; you may as well be Sisyphus pushing his monstrous boulder up a steep slope for all eternity. However, there is no net cosmic loss in allowing stubborn fools to fight hopeless battles for indefinite interludes given the obvious fact they don’t respond to well-reasoned arguments and consequently their time isn’t nearly as valuable as your time, nor will it ever be. Let them do their thing and you do your thing and seldom, if ever, will the betwixt be between.
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