Use Negativity To Create Best Version Of Yourself

The New Age of Influence

In this episode, we have Makarand Utpat, an award-winning book author, speaker, business advisor, and social entrepreneur. His expertise in different topics such as digital marketing and personal development is sought out by others who wanted to turn around crises or conflicts into opportunities. Today, Makarand shares how to handle negative things around you.

Incident happened.

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Makarand tried to call his brother using WhatsApp, he thought he's calling his brother's current phone number, but he was calling the old number of his brother registered in the United States. Someone responds and start questioning Makarand's identity; then he explained why he called, and the person began to say foul words towards him.

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Right now, we're living in an intense environment. Maybe it is because of COVID-19. A lot of people's jobs have gotten affected. He doesn't know where that person is in that particular situation.

Lessons about the incident.

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The more you start responding to people, the more they use that as an opportunity to pull you down. So it's better to maintain that distance. He learned that be the first seek, be first to seek to understand, and then be understood. So change the environment that will allow you to change your attitude, your minds. Even if he tries to apply that empathy, even if he has that empathetic attitude, it's not going to get me anywhere. It's not going to result in any meaningful outcomes.