From the course: Working with Difficult People (2017)

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The second option: Changing them

The second option: Changing them

From the course: Working with Difficult People (2017)

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The second option: Changing them

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- There's a great saying which goes "The reasonable person adapts to the world. "The unreasonable person tries to adapt "the world to them. "But all progress depends "on the unreasonable person." I love that idea. And so, sometimes, maybe, we should make a stand and try to make the world a better place and try to change how others behave. We may not have a right to do this, but certainly, we have a right to say we're not happy and to ask them to change how they behave towards us. And this is my other branch of the tree diagram. It's a harder road to go down than the first branch. And it's not guaranteed to work. But maybe it's worth at least giving it a try. Even if the person doesn't change at least you've registered your feelings with them. And if they hear the same from a number of people, it might start to dawn on them that they really do need to change what they do. So if you look at this second branch of my diagram, you can see that the first question is Are they aware of what…

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