The most hilarious part of this is that the guy who can’t tell the difference between being “apart” and being “a part” of a group, is giving advice on how to be smart. The dude who uses “response/respond” 7 times in 4 sentences back-to-back.
Although I do appreciate that you’ve learned to listen instead of being That Guy who interrupts and talks over people to make his point, that’s even worse. So, perhaps even a little bit of growth is worth celebrating. Even if it’s just to the tiny step above where you pontificate and brag on the internet and try to act smart, hoping nobody will notice how poorly your writing is put together. And I guess it is technically an improvement — it’s minutely less obnoxious. But it’s clear the lesson hasn’t really sunk in yet, and that right there is the saddest part of this. You’re too busy congratulating yourself on how much smarter you think you are now to see how gross you still are. It’s like if a filthy, smelly, disgusting man finally learned how to clean his toenails and only his toenails and thought the world should pat him on the back for it.