Stop acting like an expert - unless you want to throw down?

 Maybe if we start with 'what we're an expert in' before we talk and negotiate might help set the boundaries of implied 'rights and responsibilities'.

Which help is more helpful?

There are two kinds of useful help.

The first kind, the common kind, is when someone helps you with advice or labor to accomplish what you’ve already set out to do.

The second kind, more rare and more useful, is when someone helps you realize that your original plan wasn’t as good as you thought it was, and helps you come up with a better one.

Which kind are you looking for?

Seth Godin

You think you're so smart, stop it!

 You think you're so smart, stop it!

How do you know when you're not good at something?

"I know what I'm good at and what I'm not"

Well if you think that, you're not very good at self assessment so listen up.

Dunning-Krugger effect, I talk about it a lot. It's easy to tell where others are on that graph then where you are on that graph.

I figured it out

Ask yourself "what do I not know?"

Any time you think you know something, know how to do it, know what you would do, ask yourself "what do I know that I do not know?"

It's really comforting. I'm really familiar with my line of work, I can tell you 50 things I know I don't know, and what I would need to do to know them, but most other areas of life, I can't even name one thing of substance if I'm being honest with myself. So even if I feel like I know what to do, this grounds me to realising there’s a lot I don’t even know I need to know. 

The ultimate ultimatum to someone with power over you

 The ultimate reply

The depth of understanding.

Tell me what you know you don't know, I'll learn where you're at and we can get down to work together.

Or you can not answer that and trust me and my depth of understanding.

I leave the choice to you.

Your mind may be lying to you and you don't even know it

 There's a difference between:

Struggling and failing

Pain and suffering

Hard for you and hard for everybody

Our differences make us the same

 Right wing is kind of... "I don't want things to change in ways that make life hard for me but I'll accept change if it makes it easier for me."

Left wing is kind of... "I want things to change in ways that make life easier for me but I'll keep things the same if suits me."

So aren't we all the same? We just want better lives, we just focus on how to do that differently.

But what the hell do I know.

You have a small window to invincible

 A focused young person is undefeatable.