WATCH: Dealing with chronic complainers
Learn how to deal with negative people and those who complain all the time.
There is nothing more exhausting than being around a serial complainer or a negative person. There could be one in your home, gym or place of employment. Nothing seems to please them or bring joy to them. Their negative attitude boils over to those around them and slowly, consumes the atmosphere.
” Unhappiness or negativity is a disease on our planet.”- Eckhart Tolle
The complaining gets to a points where you want to drop them in a hole, but don’t do that. Be the bigger person and follow these helpful tips by lifehacker.com on how to deal with your serial complainer.
According to lifehacker.com, there is a difference between chronic complainers and negative people. “They may not have a negative outlook on life at all, but they still want you to know that nothing is ever quite good enough. Negative people don’t even see themselves as negative. In their mind, the world is what’s negative, and they only know one way to respond to it.”
One way or another we have to deal with such people and here is how:
Listen and nod: “Because validation is the key to shutting down a complainer initially, you need to show that you care about what they’re saying. ”
Validate, sympathise, deflect, redirect: “Validation is the number one priority, but once you’ve done that, it’s time to sympathise.”
Read more tips on lifehacker.com
