Never Enter Into a Battle of Wits with a Person Who is Unarmed!
I really like that quote.
I don’t know who the author is, but when I am feeling level and balanced I call it to mind and move on.
You know what I am talking about.
It happens everyday, *or every “bad” day.
You’re driving down the highway, minding the speed limit, and some road rageous idiot gets on your tail trying to push you faster and faster through 45 mile an hour turns and there is nowhere to pull over.
Or you go into some public Internet forum and post an innocuous statement and some troller attacks you for no good reason.
Or you’re in a meeting with some insecure suck up who wants to make you look like you are slipping in front of your vice president of finance and he throws you a curve ball.
Just remember, people who behave like this are “unarmed” not only with wits, but with power of any kind.
The MOST powerless people in the world are the ones who look to cause problems for others.
The man with road rage behind you is angry because he is low man on the totem pole at work and he can’t get ahead, his boss is a bully, so when he gets behind the wheel of his car (the only place he feels he has control), he becomes the bully.
The internet troll that tries to hijack your thread is a lonesome soul that has no friends to talk to in real life, no social life, and is jealous of your intellect.
The sideswiper in your production meeting knows he’s in over his head and can’t keep up with his own responsibilities so he tries to deflect negative attention away from himself by attempting to set you up.
Don’t succumb to these people, this negative stimuli, just keep moving forward, respond, do not react.
RESPOND do not REACT.
Or better yet, ignore, if possible.
Put your turn signal on and let the road warrior pass you, smile and wave as he screams out his window flipping you off.
Ignore the post meant to flame you and continue with your original discussion.
When blind-sided in a meeting redirect the conversation, calmly, to the original discussion.
NEVER enter into a battle of Wits with a Person Who is Unarmed.
Respond, don’t React………or better yet, if possible, ignore!
