DED: Dealing with difficult people

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Ever leave a meeting feeling like there are actually three certainties in life: death, taxes, and assholes? I’m sure you have. We all have.

We humans are wired to perceive the world though a filter. We filter our reality into pieces small enough for our brain to digest. (For an interesting discussion of the physiological underpinnings of that phenomenon, read Michael Pollan’s This Is Your Mind On Plants…