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How to Handle Negative People: 6 Strategies to Protect Your Peace

The Mel Robbins Podcast

CHAPTER

How to Deal With a Curmudgeon

The law of reciprocity is very simple. If you do something nice for me, I feel like I should do somethingNice for you. And this works with curmudgeons. You don't even think about it when somebody opens that first set of doors for you in a mall. It's sort of like, oh, so are you on? The way to deal with someone who has grumpy energy at work is by showering them with compliments.

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