What are the key takeaways from "Talking to Crazy: How to Deal with the Irrational and Impossible People in Your Life" that managers or entrepreneurs can implement?

The key takeaways from "Talking to Crazy: How to Deal with the Irrational and Impossible People in Your Life" that managers or entrepreneurs can implement are:

1. Physical Awareness: Recognize the physical sensations you are experiencing, such as tension in your head.

2. Emotional Awareness: Attach emotions to each physical sensation, like anger.

3. Impulse Awareness: Express what the feeling makes you want to do.

4. Consequence Awareness: Remind yourself of the consequences of following the impulse.

5. Insight Awareness: Understand what makes you take this confrontation personally.

6. Solution Awareness: Come up with a better solution than the impulsive one.

7. Benefit Awareness: Remind yourself of the various benefits of your new solution.

8. Let's Go: Commit to the action.

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Physical Awareness – Identify the physical sensations you are experiencing like tension in your head. Emotional Awareness – Attach emotions to each physical sensation like anger. Impulse Awareness – Verbalize what the feeling makes you want to do. Consequence Awareness – Remind yourself of the consequences of following the impulse. Insight Awareness – Understand what makes you take this confrontation personally. Solution Awareness – Come up with a better solution than the impulsive one. Benefit Awareness – Remind yourself of the various benefits of your new solution. Let's Go – Commit to the action.

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Talking to Crazy: How to Deal with the Irrational and Impossible People in Your Life

Do you often deal with bullies, manipulators, know-it-alls and other types of “crazy” in your professional life? If you reason with irrational people,...

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