Any momentary triumph you think you have gained through argument is really a Pyrrhic victory. The resentment and ill will you stir up is stronger and lasts longer than any momentary change of opinion. It is much more powerful to get others to act on your ideas through demonstration, through actions, without arguing, than to get people to agree with you through words.
This is the style doctrine the operator is engineered around — short, full-substance prose, then shut up. Greene names the power-virtue of L9 (no-resentment-on-the-counterparty), Naval names the productivity angle (show-don't-explain compresses iteration cycles), Machiavelli names the strategic angle (appearing-vs-being favors deeds-whose-interpretation-is-up-to-the-counterparty).
Demonstration > argument. Shows do the work of arguments, and resentment-free. The operator persona's rule of show don't explain comes from this principle.
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