Whenever you find yourself in an argument, do not give advice or suggestions as the heat of the disagreement will burn them. When a person is arguing, their mind is entirely occupied with the argument and simply rejects inputs that do not help it win the argument. Advice, suggestions, critiques and justifications in the peak of an argument always worsen the situation.

What you have to do is simply have patience and allow the heat to settle down. Allow the other party to make all their points. Then politely state yours and hopefully reach an agreement. If the heat is on again, repeat the procedure and try to change the way you state your point.

M.  Antoninus, the son of Annius Verus and Domitia Calvilla, was born at Rome, A.D. 121. The Emperor T. Antoninus Pius married Faustina, the sister of Annius Verus, and was consequently the uncle of M. Antoninus. When Hadrian adopted Antoninus Pius and declared him his successor in the empire, Antoninus Pius adopted both L. Ceionius Commodus and M. Antoninus, generally called M. Aurelius Antoninus.

The youth was most carefully brought up. He thanks the gods that he had good grandfathers, good parents, a good sister, good teachers, good associates, good kinsmen and friends, nearly everything good. He had the happy fortune to witness the example of his uncle and adoptive father, Antoninus Pius, and he has recorded in his work the virtues of this excellent man and prudent ruler. Like many young Romans he tried his hand at poetry and studied rhetoric. There are letters extant showing the great affection of the pupil for the master, and the master’s great hopes of his industrious pupil.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882) was an American essayist, philosopher, poet, and leader of the transcendentalist movement in the early 19th century. He didn’t have a blog or any idea what one might be, but he is able to tell us why blogging is valuable.

The good of publishing one’s thoughts is that of hooking to you like-minded men, and of giving to men whom you value… one hour of stimulated thought.
— From The Heart of Emerson’s Journals, ed. Bliss Perry, p. 94. Entry of 20 June 1835 (Emerson was 32 years old).

“We live in a country that seems to be in this massive state of delusion, where the idea of what you are is more important than you actually being that. And it actually works just as long as everybody’s winking at the same time. Then, if one person stops winking, you just beat the crap out of that person, and they either starting winking or go somewhere else.”
– Branford Marsalis

The students that get the opportunity to work with this man are some of the best and brightest students America has to offer. They also have to be distinguished in the field of music. And yet, Marsalis insists that these students are immensely flawed, that they demonstrate an unwillingness to really work and instead prefer to have the idea of being something instead of actually working on being that something.