How to Deal with Aggressive People

Welcome to today's episode of the mindset mentor podcast. I'm your host, Rob Dial. If you have not yet done so, hit that subscribe button so you never miss another podcast episode. I put out episodes four times a week to help you learn and grow and improve yourself because if you can improve yourself, you can improve your life. So if that's what you wanna do, hit that subscribe button and follow along. Today, I'm gonna be talking about how to deal with aggressive people because aggressive people exist in this world. There's nothing that you and I can do to change that. But what you can do is arm yourself with the best tools and techniques and knowledge about what is actually going on in the situation so that you can better protect yourself. And so when you find yourself in an argument or in a verbal attack, you know exactly what to do to remove yourself from it and be able to protect your own mental health. So let's dive in. Okay? Let's start with the heat. Let's start with the fire. Let's start with the full on confrontation moment. We can both think of one of those moments that's happened in our life. Right? You know the feeling when you're in that situation and it's it's heightened. It might be an argument. It might be disagreement. It might be somebody's got road rage on the road, whatever it might be. Your heart is racing. You're not breathing very well. You're short, tight and tight breathing. Your body's kinda tight. You feel like you're either about to snap or just completely shut down. You don't really know what to do. And in those situations, that's not you being dramatic in any way. That's actually your nervous system doing its job. It's deciding without your permission at all whether it is going to fight, flight, or freeze. Fight, that means that I'm gonna argue, I'm gonna yell, I'm gonna escalate the situation. Flight means that I'm going to leave or I'm going to avoid or I'm going to fully shut down or freeze, which means I go numb, I go blank, I don't know what to do, I lose my words. That's what our nervous system does in those moments. Aggressive energy actually activates primal instincts inside of you, but you're not just like a brain stem. You're a human. You have a choice. And once you really understand what is happening in these situations, you can figure out the best way to move through them. And that's really the key here is that you're in the situation physically. Like, you're really there in the present moment, like you're standing there, but you need to kind of see it from an outsider's perspective and remove yourself from the situation to give yourself some space and some distance. As I always say, if you're in the jar, you can't read the label. Meaning, when you're inside of the jar, …