Here are several ways incoming ideas can be resisted:
- Denying comprehension of incoming ideas
- Casting doubt on incoming ideas without citing grounds
- Turning incoming ideas back into questions
- Grudging, equivocal, or non-comittal acceptance of incoming ideas
- Downplaying, relativising, or contextualising incoming ideas
- Presenting my bad behaviour as neutral or even virtuous
- Blaming others for reacting to my bad behaviour
- Casting reactions to my bad behaviour as others' idiosyncrasies
- JEDI mind tricks (conveying justification, explanation, defence, intentions)
- Not answering questions promptly, openly, directly, and abundantly
- Denying there is anything for the question to elicit
- Lack of cooperation in following the train of thought
- Requiring extensive and persistent interrogation to get to the truth
- Focusing on irrelevant details to distract from the main point
- Trying to win the argument instead of getting to the truth
- Claiming ignorance in relation to what is self-evident
- Trying to get my point across instead
- Focusing on my reaction to the ideas than on the substance