Comment by Waterluvian
2 years ago
I love this xkcd.
We all need to embrace: Nobody has ever been impressed that you already knew something. When people share a discovery with you, it’s not about you. It’s about them and their joy of discovery. They want to share that joy with you.
If they're sharing the joy of discovery that's great. Lots of people though are gloating. "Haha, you're stupid, you didn't know X and I did". In other words, they're the ones not being charitable by assuming you don't already know X.
Trying to think of an example it usually goes something like
A: We should do X
B: No. See this document (the sharing part)
A: I wrote that document and I'm telling you we should do X (the "I already knew this" part)