Brant was recently asked for advice on how to handle workplace drama. He emphasized the importance of not engaging with dramatic behavior and instead be mindful of positively reinforcing normal, healthy interaction. When you don’t feed into the drama it changes the atmosphere positively and deflates the drama.
Do you have drama going on in the home or workplace? This might help!
Transcription:
Brant:
Weird thing about writing books is that people think you know what you’re talking about.
Sherri:
It’s tough, isn’t it?
Brant:
So I was speaking in Jacksonville, Florida last night about one of the books I wrote and a guy asked me afterwards, he’s like, Hey, wonder what to do about drama. I work at an engineering firm and I have these people that come in and they’re all about drama this and drama that. And this happened and that happened. And they’re always trying to draw me into it. What should I do about it? And again, I don’t have the answers, but I told them, humans can be trained a little bit. And I have found for those people who are all into drama and look at me and this happened and oh no, what’s going to happen now to me? I don’t really respond to that if it’s texted or emailed or I’ll respond briefly or something. But when they do something normal, I would say normal, where they’re not trying to drag me into, I’m like all over it. Seconds. Oh yeah, you’re so right man. I saw that. That was such a good, or I love that album. Or I found that they get less dramatic with me.
Sherri:
You’re not going to give an inch.
Brant:
Because,
Sherri:
And I hate that, Brant Hansen, about you and love it as well. I’m here as a personal testimony that you will not, Nope. Not going there. And it does, it changes the atmosphere, cause there’s no one, if you don’t feed the fire, it’ll die out.
Brant:
I guess that’s true. I remember this old study they did, it was a college class where the professor was up front every time he moved towards the window side of the room when he was lecturing, they would smile and act attentive. Every time he walked towards the door side, up front to the other side, they would all act distant and don’t care and frown. And before the hour was over, he was pinned up against the window lecturing, like stuck to the wall. There are ways over, you can train humans a little bit.
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