69 Choose Your Approach
Before we go any further, we need to stress the fact that there are at least four choices when dealing with people you can’t stand. There’s no magic formula; you are the best judge of which choice is right in any particular situation—although, as you’ll see, we believe the first of these four choices is in fact a nonchoice.
The four choices are:
Stay and do nothing. Doing nothing is not necessarily complete passivity; it may include both suffering and complaining to other people who can do nothing. Doing nothing is dangerous, because frustration with difficult people tends to build up and get worse over time. And complaining ...
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