Episode notes
This episode is about two paths: yours and theirs. When you react, you’re going down their path. When you respond, you are walking them down yours.
Stop reacting to them! It’s obvious you don’t want to go down their path anymore, but you do it out of the habit of reacting to them, and that’s only one of many problems your reactions cause:
Weak
Low value
Bully food
Your reality isn’t clear
You have no standards
You will betray yourself
The best strategy to stop your reactions is to default to blank face/say nothing. If you can interrupt your own emotional eruptions with blankness and silence, then you can begin to turn them around so you can consciously choose.
Then next step is to respond.
How to respond instead? First what does it mean to respond exactly?
It’s when you take inform ...
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respond vs react