Do You Give Away Your Power?

What other people think of you can’t hurt you. Let’s put this theory to the test. Go ahead and think something terrible about the person next to you; it doesn’t affect them. Unless…

If they saw you smirk when you thought the bad thing and then thought “Oh no, you know what that smirk means. It means they think I’m bad. And if they think I’m bad, it means they don’t trust me, and if they don’t trust me etc., etc,, etc.” With all this meaning they just assigned to the smirk, they gave you power.

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But they didn’t have to assign that meaning. They could have just thought, his face itches and you no longer have power over them. What matters is what you think about what they think. If you think they have power over you… Shazzzaaam! As a speaker, if someone decides you’re bad, that makes them a lousy person. And, why give power to lousy people?

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