When the all-knowing meets the self-assured... ...: How to deal with people you can't stand

Author: Rick Brinkman
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: A super bestseller translated into over ten languages, with over a million copies sold. If someone asks you if you have people around who are difficult to get along with, you'll probably be able to list a bunch of names without hesitation. If someone asks if you think you're difficult to get along with, your answer after some consideration would likely be, "Am I?" But the author's perspective is just the opposite. They believe that there are no people who are naturally hard to deal with, and you're not always reasonable either. Rick Brinkman is a natural therapist who studies health issues from the perspective of personal attitudes. Using an abundance of undeniable scientific evidence, they demonstrate that when a rational person feels in danger or fails to achieve their goals, they resort to ten frustrating behaviors, turning into intolerable characters like "tanks, snipers, grenades, Mr. Know-It-All, Mr. Half-Baked, Mr. Nice Guy, Mr. Maybe, Mr. Nothing's Wrong, Mr. No Way, and Mr. Complainer." In this book, you will learn a set of special strategies to deal with these top ten experts and occasionally difficult versions of yourself. They can transform conflict into harmony, impulse into reason, and hidden hostility into sincere dialogue; they can win people over without fighting, making troublemakers comply and change themselves; or they can guide you to use a broad-minded approach and effective tools to genuinely "redirect" them into your best friends. In reality, you have already unconsciously applied these techniques when building trust with the people you care about. Now, you just need to consciously apply them in your interactions with difficult people. Every day, you will have the strength to face the challenges they bring, and a harmonious and wonderful new world will appear before you. When you next interact with someone you find