How Do You Pick Your Battles?

"FINE YOU DON'T HAVE TO WEAR A SWEATSHIRT" - me, picking a battle

I used to be terrible at picking my battles. It was hard for me to assign priority to disagreements, in the sense that every argument, no matter how insignificant, felt like a VERY BIG DEAL. And so I dug in my heels over things that, in retrospect, truly did not matter. Over the years, I gradually learned that not every battle was worth fighting; in fac…