THE ADVANTAGE OF PISSING PEOPLE OFF
There Are Advantages to Pissing People Off
“If
you are really effective at what you do, 95% of the things said about
you will be negative. Keep your head on straight, don’t get emotional,
take the heat, and just make sure your clients are smiling.”-Scott
Boras, widely regarded as the most powerful agent in professional
baseball
Doing anything remotely interesting and self beneficial will bring criticism. Attempting to do anything large-scale and interesting will bring on hoards of haters. This is fine and can be advantageous – if you are adept at the art of capitalizing off of haters.
First you have to accept one fact. Pissing people off is in inevitable. If you are ever going to be a success at anything you’re going to piss some people off and sprout some haters. It comes with the success, and moving on territory. But haters can work to your advantage.
The fact that haters can’t keep your name out of their mouth indicates to others there must be something really interesting about you. A classic hater statement that indicates they have no validity for their convictions is “he/she thinks ..they’re all that/ somebody”. They never say they think it, they say you think it. This gets others real interested in what it is you are doing that makes you so special. People that otherwise would’ve paid you no mind all of a sudden start looking at you. This is your time to really shine.
Then by consuming themselves with what you are doing, if they were in any sort of competition, they remove themselves. They spend countless moments pondering you, while you’re getting on with what you are doing. Whether it’s a job. school, a purchase, looks, whatever it is they’re pissed off about, isn’t going to change..
“Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.” Good leadership involves responsibility to the welfare of the group, which means that some people will get angry at your actions and decisions. It’s inevitable-if you’re honorable. Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity. You’ll avoid the tough decisions, you’ll avoid confronting the people who need to be confronted, and you’ll avoid offering differential rewards based on differential performance because some people might get upset. Ironically, by procrastinating on the difficult choices, by trying not to get anyone mad, and by treating everyone equally “nicely” regardless of their contributions, you’ll simply ensure that the only people you’ll wind up angering are the most creative and productive people in the organization.
-General Colin Powell
Let’s look at some people who capitalized heavily off of pissing off people:
Dr. Martin Luther King (Think how far back we’d be if he let haters detour him)
Barack Obama (He’s got haters galore and you all know it)
Rosa Parks
Rush Limbaugh (The man has made himself a millionaire…pissing off people)
Any Politician – Somebody is always pissed off at them, but they manage to turn it into a positive each time
Any successful athlete: There is always an opponent that can’t stand them. They flip the script by putting on a stellar performance and making the opponent look bad
Nelson Mandela – his haters are the very reason he’s one of the most loved and respected figures in the world
George Bush- Pissed off half of America- Didn’t stop him from getting up everyday continuing to piss off more people by doing exactly what the hell he wanted to do.
The Art of Pissing Off People
Now be careful with this folks. Don’t run out and recklessly start messing with people, that’s not what I’m saying. That’s irresponsible and can get you killed. As a matter of a fact you don’t ever purposely set out to create haters. That won’t help your cause at all. Trust me though, if you are about something, doing something worthwhile, going somewhere in life, the haters will find you. Leave them alone, don’t stoop to their level, and you’ll find they will do the work for you. If the racist whites of the 50s & 60s had not kept so much noise about Dr. King, they would not have peaked the curiosity of the non racist whites, who wound up supporting his movement thus giving it even more power.
Take for instance those of you that may have tackled some controversial topics. Controversy is a sure fire way to spawn some haters and piss off some people. The pissed off people are going to surely make some noise to defend their position (whether credible or not) which is going to trigger the interests of those that weren’t privy to topic at the outset. They want to know what’s gotten these people all upset, so they come to see. Hold your ground, be responsible and a as I said earlier stay on your A game. Now’s the time to win some new friends, supporters, customers, thanks to the haters, and at the same time discredit the hater as well.
Your personal attributes or acquisitions have someone up on their hind legs? Well that’s not your problem. Whatever ever it is that’s gotten their fruit of the looms in a bunch, you make sure you keep it front and center. Don’t down play any positive attribute about yourself or life to pacify some jealous hater.
Someone hating on you because of your look, style, hair. or physique should be one hell of a self esteem and ego booster. So flaunt it if you’ve got it. Just don’t cross the confident and self assured line unto arrogant. If its some material possession that’s got them all riled up, nothing you can do but enjoy the possession. Say it’s a dress; well now you have a sure shot idea of the style that looks good on you, thanks to the haters popping up. If they hate on your home, your vehicle, know then your house and vehicle must be the bomb.
Maybe you have a very successful job or business going on. Make sure it remains successful and on track. Don’t let what haters say or think have you second guessing yourself. Keep doing what you are doing and let them stay pissed off.
Don’t get wrapped up in the haters, enjoy what you have. And keep your style, class, and wits about you, and reap the rewards from people being pissed off at you
Doing anything remotely interesting and self beneficial will bring criticism. Attempting to do anything large-scale and interesting will bring on hoards of haters. This is fine and can be advantageous – if you are adept at the art of capitalizing off of haters.
First you have to accept one fact. Pissing people off is in inevitable. If you are ever going to be a success at anything you’re going to piss some people off and sprout some haters. It comes with the success, and moving on territory. But haters can work to your advantage.
The fact that haters can’t keep your name out of their mouth indicates to others there must be something really interesting about you. A classic hater statement that indicates they have no validity for their convictions is “he/she thinks ..they’re all that/ somebody”. They never say they think it, they say you think it. This gets others real interested in what it is you are doing that makes you so special. People that otherwise would’ve paid you no mind all of a sudden start looking at you. This is your time to really shine.
Then by consuming themselves with what you are doing, if they were in any sort of competition, they remove themselves. They spend countless moments pondering you, while you’re getting on with what you are doing. Whether it’s a job. school, a purchase, looks, whatever it is they’re pissed off about, isn’t going to change..
“Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.” Good leadership involves responsibility to the welfare of the group, which means that some people will get angry at your actions and decisions. It’s inevitable-if you’re honorable. Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity. You’ll avoid the tough decisions, you’ll avoid confronting the people who need to be confronted, and you’ll avoid offering differential rewards based on differential performance because some people might get upset. Ironically, by procrastinating on the difficult choices, by trying not to get anyone mad, and by treating everyone equally “nicely” regardless of their contributions, you’ll simply ensure that the only people you’ll wind up angering are the most creative and productive people in the organization.
-General Colin Powell
Let’s look at some people who capitalized heavily off of pissing off people:
Dr. Martin Luther King (Think how far back we’d be if he let haters detour him)
Barack Obama (He’s got haters galore and you all know it)
Rosa Parks
Rush Limbaugh (The man has made himself a millionaire…pissing off people)
Any Politician – Somebody is always pissed off at them, but they manage to turn it into a positive each time
Any successful athlete: There is always an opponent that can’t stand them. They flip the script by putting on a stellar performance and making the opponent look bad
Nelson Mandela – his haters are the very reason he’s one of the most loved and respected figures in the world
George Bush- Pissed off half of America- Didn’t stop him from getting up everyday continuing to piss off more people by doing exactly what the hell he wanted to do.
The Art of Pissing Off People
Now be careful with this folks. Don’t run out and recklessly start messing with people, that’s not what I’m saying. That’s irresponsible and can get you killed. As a matter of a fact you don’t ever purposely set out to create haters. That won’t help your cause at all. Trust me though, if you are about something, doing something worthwhile, going somewhere in life, the haters will find you. Leave them alone, don’t stoop to their level, and you’ll find they will do the work for you. If the racist whites of the 50s & 60s had not kept so much noise about Dr. King, they would not have peaked the curiosity of the non racist whites, who wound up supporting his movement thus giving it even more power.
Take for instance those of you that may have tackled some controversial topics. Controversy is a sure fire way to spawn some haters and piss off some people. The pissed off people are going to surely make some noise to defend their position (whether credible or not) which is going to trigger the interests of those that weren’t privy to topic at the outset. They want to know what’s gotten these people all upset, so they come to see. Hold your ground, be responsible and a as I said earlier stay on your A game. Now’s the time to win some new friends, supporters, customers, thanks to the haters, and at the same time discredit the hater as well.
Your personal attributes or acquisitions have someone up on their hind legs? Well that’s not your problem. Whatever ever it is that’s gotten their fruit of the looms in a bunch, you make sure you keep it front and center. Don’t down play any positive attribute about yourself or life to pacify some jealous hater.
Someone hating on you because of your look, style, hair. or physique should be one hell of a self esteem and ego booster. So flaunt it if you’ve got it. Just don’t cross the confident and self assured line unto arrogant. If its some material possession that’s got them all riled up, nothing you can do but enjoy the possession. Say it’s a dress; well now you have a sure shot idea of the style that looks good on you, thanks to the haters popping up. If they hate on your home, your vehicle, know then your house and vehicle must be the bomb.
Maybe you have a very successful job or business going on. Make sure it remains successful and on track. Don’t let what haters say or think have you second guessing yourself. Keep doing what you are doing and let them stay pissed off.
Don’t get wrapped up in the haters, enjoy what you have. And keep your style, class, and wits about you, and reap the rewards from people being pissed off at you
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