How to Avoid Being Affected by Insulting Comments
Encountering negative or insulting comments is an unavoidable part of life. The key to getting past insulting comments without it affecting you lies in controlling your emotional response to the insults and even making something positive out of the experience. Read on to learn how to avoid being affected by insulting comments.
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Read or listen to insulting comments first and then find comments about you, on the same topic, that is positive so you emphasize that the insulting comment is an opinion and not a fact.
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Understand that criticism is exceedingly easy to dish out, especially when the critic making insulting comments is making more of an effort at criticizing than at doing.
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Remove or ignore the insults as you review the comments and try to understand why the author of the comments found fault with you or something you did. Use your analysis of the comments to think about the validity of the criticism and whether you can improve yourself or your work on the basis of any of the claims.
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Think specifically about the source of the insulting comments and explore the possible motives that person may have for wanting to hurt you or, as is often the case, deflect criticism and negative commentary from himself.
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Stand up for yourself by countering the comments with positive qualities about yourself or your work and by not giving the person who's making the comments any room to deliver further insults. Call the comments for what it is so you and people around you know the truth of the matter.
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The methods discussed in this article focus mainly on humiliating your opponent in front of their peers, to reduce the impact of verbal insults. I have also found that a focus on subtle humiliation helps to deflect my mind from the insult itself. It is a fact. People will use us as stepping stones throughout our lives. However, we must not dwell on hurtful words. Insults are like seeds in our minds. These seeds will only grow if we nurture them.
