that's me 100% - when I know I'm right, I know I'm right... and
   if someone doesn't understand me, I'll repeat myself 17
   different ways until they understand me.

   If I'm wrong... well, they'd better work pretty hard at proving
   it. If they succeed, well, they've just gained my awe and
   amazement. I'm always willing to be proven wrong, but they're
   gonna work for it

   In the 6th grade, I declared to my mother, "Mom, I've learned
   everything I need about math now for the rest of my life." She
   laughed and replied, "How do you KNOW you won't need it if you
   don't KNOW it yet?"

   Typical parental response. I didn't know how to answer her.

   Well, after I made my proclamation, years went on. I made it
   through Pre-Algebra, Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry,
   Pre-Calculus and Calculus. Except for Calculus, I did really
   well in all of them.

   But you know what? All these years later? 6th Grade Kenneth Udut
   was right. Run businesses, learned how to play the stock market
   at one point (it's a game, just with real money, but still a
   game), done all the "adult stuff" with money, mortgage, bank
   accounts, credit cards, built things out of wood that are sturdy
   and don't fall apart, done lots of programming and used a lot of
   math on the computer.

   And...

   ...NONE of the stuff I learned in math from 7th - 12th grade was
   useful AT ALL to me.

   Maybe I refused to use the other math just to prove a point.
   Maybe I never really needed it. But either way, I did it. I
   learned it to get the grades then forgot it as fast as I could