Holding in high regard

"This is the only way. I’m certain. Nothing else even comes close. I’ve done it a hundred times. A thousand. There’s absolutely no better way to do it."

His colleague, the one he always looked up to, suggested, "But what if we did it this way instead?"

"You’re right," he said reverently. "Of course, you’re right." He was all in, as if his previous certainty had never existed.