Dealing With Difficult People

Difficult people are everywhere. They may take the shape of your parents, bosses, partners, children, relatives or your extremely troubling drivers. They exist and are everywhere.

How do you deal with difficult people? The ones which don’t listen, blow away their temper at the drop of a hat and are too stuck up to their opinions. The simple answer to deal with people is to be solution oriented. One cannot always prove they are right, sometimes to win in an argument may invite more trouble, to lose your temper over some body’s lack of consideration or carelessness may also be futile, however what always works like a charm is to stay collected and keep a cool head over one’s shoulders.

Certain situations need a paradigm shift and may require one to view things from a missed perspective. A staunch belief over a concept or an idea that is untrue or detrimental may require more work but with a patient perseverance sometimes gradual changes do show and are more promising that expecting an overnight miracle through a forced and exaggerated reaction.

It is a misconception when people tend to generally give up and say “Ah! It’s hopeless I give up, they are never going to understand me” which is a statement most of us must have exclaimed at one point or the other, quite often so that is an way out and may fuel more animosity than to patch up a relation.

How many times have we ourselves made up our minds about people and often forget to consider that maybe the matter of dispute maybe with us, or it may be with certain patterns we follow that may cause a conflict from our dealing parties at hand? We rarely give people a chance are too quick to decide and react far too early than we should.

One of my favorite ways to deal with difficult acquaintances who wouldn’t matter much with their presence or absence is to not conveniently disregard their negativity. As in my opinion losing temper keeps adding a new bar to another dangerous level. Not to forget a useless outlet for energy to drain.

Another important thing to note is that there exists a freedom of speech for everyone and not everything demands your time or energy. People will talk negative, go out of their way to be offensive but all in all what they say is entirely their opinion and they are entitled to it. Losing your temper on useless matters and over reacting to frivolous issues is actually harming your own self.

I had heard in a film where Denzel Washington once quoted “The loudest in the room is the weakest of them all”

Something to think about..