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Stoicism for Dealing with Difficult People
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Stoicism for Dealing with Difficult People

How Stoicism can help you deal with a difficult person exhibiting patterns of narcissism, bullying, and mobbing
Last updated 7/2022
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What you'll learn

  • Identify patterns of narcissism, bullying, and mobbing in relationships and in the workplace
  • Critically examine your emotions when dealing with difficult people
  • Apply Stoic practices and exercises of premeditation to address your emotions when confronted by difficult people
  • Apply Stoic exercises that ground your responses to difficult people on your own values
  • Practical guidelines for dealing with a difficult relationship, colleague, or manager

Course content

1 section7 lectures1h 0m total length
  • Lesson 1: Overview of Narcissism, Bullying, and Mobbing8:30

    Explore narcissism, bullying, and mobbing in workplace dynamics, including patterns like manipulation, secrecy, intimidation, and coercive group tactics, and learn stoic approaches to respond constructively.

  • Lesson 2: The Dichotomy of Control and What is Yours6:54

    Explore the dichotomy of control and the primacy of character in Stoicism, distinguishing internal versus external challenges you can and cannot control when dealing with difficult people.

  • Lesson 3: The Analysis of Emotions as Beliefs7:06

    Explore how Stoicism links emotions to underlying beliefs, distinguishing internal challenges from external events, and learn agency in managing fear and anger in difficult people and workplaces.

  • Lesson 4: The Premeditation of Adversity8:43

    Utilize Stoicism to manage internal stress and emotions when facing difficult people, and practice the premeditation of adversity to rehearse worst-case scenarios and ready responses.

  • Lesson 5: The Premeditation of Death & Depersonalizing Situations12:39

    Explore stoic strategies for handling difficult people, decide to stay or leave, and apply premeditation, depersonalization, and information gathering within the dichotomy of control to protect values.

  • Lesson 6: Review & Application of Stoic Exercises7:55

    Review and apply stoic exercises for handling difficult people, focusing on the dichotomy of control, responding to insults with forbearance, depersonalizing, and making stay or leave decisions.

  • Additional Content: Stoic Sources & Clarifying Conceptual Tensions8:15

    Explore the roots of stoic ideas like the dichotomy of control and emotions as beliefs. Examine indifference, premeditation, and present-focused action to empower responses to difficulties.

Requirements

  • No prior philosophy experience needed.

Description

Dealing with patterns of behavior such as bullying and narcissism can be incredibly baffling and overwhelming, because the kind of communication and negotiation that might have worked in a more familiar situation can often be counterproductive in these cases.

In this class we teach you how to apply Stoic ideas and practices when dealing with a difficult person.

We detail the particular difficulties of dealing with bullying behavior and narcissistic traits, and explain how Stoic principles and practices can be helpful in situations in which the intentions of the abuser cannot be expected to change.

This class can be useful to anyone who needs help in dealing with a person that represents an enduring obstacle in their daily life, especially those for whom no kind of well-meaning outreach has proven to work. This could be a colleague or manager at work, a partner, family member, or friend.

Stoicism is not only a set of ideas, but also a set of practices that can be helpful in dealing with a variety of challenges in human life, and that have informed the development of modern psychological therapies.

We show you how to use practices that apply the Stoic principle of dichotomy of control and the analysis of emotions as beliefs to deal with the internal manifestations of the conflict such as anxiety, fear, and anger.

We also show you how to handle the external challenges of navigating daily life around the difficult person by applying practices that train your focus to be on actions that you can take, and not on worries about what may or may not happen.

We look forward to seeing you in class!

Matt & Andre

Who this course is for:

  • People dealing with a difficult person at work or at home