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Today’s Question: How do I deal with haters?

When you try to step out of your comfort zone, you always find people who support you and people who rebel against you. Today I will help you deal with the latter.

• The first thing to remember while dealing with haters is not to feed the haters. Haters crave attention and a reaction from you. The more you engage with them, the more satisfaction they get. If you take that away from them, they will have no choice but to stop.

• If the hate comments become unbearable, there is always the option to block the person or cut ties with them in real life. Most social media platforms allow you to block or mute accounts that are harassing you.

• From personal experience, I can tell you that it can be very tempting to stoop to your hater’s level by insulting or attacking them back but this approach is useless as it just wastes your valuable time and ruins your mood.

• Another thing I realized over time is not to take it personally. Haters go after all sorts of people, not just you. Just because their lives are so shitty they try to ruin yours by being mean to you. Don’t fall for their trap.

• The last trick is to be witty about it. Try using humor instead of comebacks. This lightens the hostile mood and shows everybody your good side. Also, when you stop thinking of haters as “haters” it can be pretty fun to mess with them if you can control your emotions.

Well no matter what happens, you should create and explore your ideas despite of a few people hating on it. You don’t need to satisfy everyone’s expectations of you. So good luck out there.

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