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Many people don’t participate in an ecosystem for the money, so don’t insult them by rewarding them with it.
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It only takes a second or two of feeling really bad – humiliated, gypped, overlooked, insulted, mistreated – to set off a lifelong feud.
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We are wired as deeply as our musical sense or sense of balance to respond to hurt with hurt, pain with pain, insult with insult. Not doing so requires enormous restraint.
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The condition of life we most want to change is the inevitability of death. Death insults us. It always wins. It mocks our wish for omnipotence and confounds our desire for control.
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…you may ultimately feel better when you are the victim of an insult than when you are a bystander to it.
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Eliminate the phrase ‘don’t take it personally’ from your vocabulary – it’s insulting. Instead, offer to help fix the problem.
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