When the abuse gets personal, you know you are winning the argument. My attitude is you have to learn how to not only absorb pressure, you have to learn how to deal with conflict.

When dealing with workplace issues, there is bound to be conflict, how well you handle that conflict is the key to success. In a similar ideal to online abuse, the people who generally seek to undermine you are the under-performers, so it doesn’t concern me. I have a degree of arrogance to these people, you have to. This makes them even more hostile as I don’t even attempt to communicate with them. These people are angry individuals, angry with the world and angry with people who are more competent than they are.

My attitude is, why waste energy on losers. They are losers because they never tried to get ahead, they lack the drive and the ability. I have no issues with individuals who try, but lack the competence to achieve higher levels – they give their best. But the losers who seek to undermine you, they are targets. I love coming up against these fools, they are easy to run-over. They lack the cognitive ability to challenge you, they take personal shots, that’s all they have, they certainly don’t have the mental ability to offer solutions.