[canadian_tired]

I love this rule! I try to do the same thing. I look at it as an investment...long return. Arguing to win daily is a fools game. As you say, make your point and watch things unfold. Over the long run, if your guidance along the way would have have been correct, well...the arguments stop eventually. The downside is that everyone assumes you are always correct...which is bad. Which means, you need to frame your guidance with some form of caveats/probability.