I hate having this conversation with family members and normal people. It's just excruciating and everyone likes to play devil's advocate. The best is the: "oh yeah but isn't that like [insert well known company here]".
They'd rather hear something like: "yeah, im a junior analyst at Goldman Sachs." or "yeah, im in law school". They can comprehend that stuff a lot easier.
It's great practice, but it just gets really annoying. It's caused me to be a very defensive person at times.
I agree, the devil's advocates irritate me the most. It's not just the combative nature of the questioning (does no one know about the other five hats of de Bono!?), it's the underlying assumption by the "advocate" that they are doing me a favour by bringing this new point of view to my attention.
In fact, they are saying the first superficial thing that comes into their head, which is pretty much the same thing every other person before them had said. If I am trying to close a sale, then great, I love a challenge. But when I am trying to relax, it is just tiring to have to run the gauntlet again without any benefits.
They'd rather hear something like: "yeah, im a junior analyst at Goldman Sachs." or "yeah, im in law school". They can comprehend that stuff a lot easier.
It's great practice, but it just gets really annoying. It's caused me to be a very defensive person at times.