How To Deal With Difficult People

by Madison Taylor

Difficult people can seriously throw off your vibe. They make your life more challenging and they cause you needless stress and pain. Unfortunately, difficult people are also inevitable. You are bound to come into contact with a rude, manipulative, pessimistic, indecisive, or excessively needy people several times throughout your life. If you work in certain fields such as sales, management, or customer service, you will encounter difficult people even more than most. You may also struggle with your family or co-workers being difficult and making your life harder. What can you do about the inevitability of difficult people in your life? Well, this book is here to help. The enclosed pages are stuffed with excellent tips on how to deal with all sorts of difficult people. You will learn how to stop taking difficult people so personally, how to distance yourself from troublemakers, how to improve your communication, and how to persuade stubborn people to see or do things your way. There are tips for every possible kind of difficult person that you may run into during your lifetime. You will make your life much easier and you will eventually learn to prevent conflict before it even starts with the help of this handy guide. What else do you need to know about dealing with difficult people? Difficult people are people, just like you. Learning how to deal with difficult people calls for finesse and delicacy. Once you master this, your life will become so much easier. You will no longer cower in the break room to avoid an obnoxious co-worker or get into shouting matches with your aunt at holiday get-togethers. So start reading now to improve your interactions with difficult people and to increase your quality of life.

Genres: Nonfiction, Self Help, Psychology

108 pages, Paperback

Published December 8, 2016

Reviews

[kartik narayanan]

Introduction
‘How To Deal With Difficult People’ by Madison Taylor deals with a problem everybody has. I found this book while looking for something else and decided to read it due to its common but catchy title. A quick Goodreads search reveals a lot of books with the same title. This confirms my hypothesis that while many people have solutions, these do not work for everyone. Continuing on the same site, I found out that Madison Taylor has written many ‘pop-psychology’ books. So this made me curious to see how this book was.

Structure
“How To Deal With Difficult People’ is quite small. I read in one sitting, in about half an hour. The sequencing of the chapters is logical. The book starts with the various types of difficult people and proceeds to end with various techniques of dealing with them. So, there is a sense of flow when going through the book.

Recommendation
I felt that ‘How To Deal With Difficult People’ was insipid. The advice was superficial and it did not offer in-depth reasoning or thinking. This might work well with tweens or teenagers but not adults.

[Anastasia Alén]

Good book but really too short.

[Amy]

Very shallow and nothing new shared

[Chara]

Easy to read but not scholarly enough to put in self-help genres.

[Diba Ilupi]

1.5/ 5

it didnt offer solution.

[Sara Aouichi]

i found this stupid and waste of time

[Azalia]

Not a bad book, most of it are things we're aware of but still a good read.

[Benilyn Formoso]

So so. Not that much.

[Christine]

This was a required reading for class. It was a quick read but it didn't really offer anything new for me. Most points made were pretty general. I was hoping there could have been more insights backed by scientific evidence, but the book lacks exactly that.

[Eva]

overall its a good book . good advice and some techniques are really worth trying

[james]

Overall, a good book

This book could do without chapter 6 but overall decent strategies for dealing with different types of people. Well done.

[Kristen]

Great tips based on psychology

[Mkittysamom]

Ok so this book is full of common sense advice. I was playing around with the kindle search button and interestingly found out.. the author used the words: difficult -163 times, people -284 times, you/your/yourself - a whopping 388 times... didn't anyone tell the author most people bristle when someone tells them what to do.. !? So I got a weird superiority vibe coming from the author and I can sum up all my difficulties with difficult people now. A. It's my fault and I should change, mainly be more empathtic, and use communication to solve problems. Communication was used 55 times. Behavior- 59, life-56, can/cannot- 142, rude- 46, don't/do not- 76! Should - 24, conflict - 38...well you get the idea.
Communication, Empathy, Listening, Asking questions, Assertiveness, Confidence and Do not take things personally!!
Well then.. I won't 😝