How to Deal With Negative people When Building a Business

About this video

Filmed at his grandparents’ farm in Japan, Sean Dollwet talks about dealing with negative people when building a business. He says everyone faces disagreement and put-downs, recounting three years of failed attempts including multi-level marketing before Kindle publishing, friends telling him he was stupid for trying, and skepticism even though his parents were supportive. He notes that even after becoming, in his words, fairly mildly successful with Kindle publishing and YouTube, he still gets instant dislikes and hate emails. His approach is not revenge but acceptance: negativity is normal and, he argues, humans are hard-wired to focus on it. He reframes critics as often envious or scared to take action themselves, worried a peer’s success would make them look bad. For every one negative person, he says, there are about ten positive, supportive people, and the choice is which group to focus on. He advises surrounding yourself with like-minded, positive people, citing his own mastermind of three others and a wider circle of entrepreneurial friends, as the support system that makes negativity easier to handle.

Key takeaways

• Negativity and criticism are universal for anyone building a business, not a personal failure
• Reframe critics as often driven by envy or fear of taking action themselves
• Deliberately focus on the roughly ten supportive people for every one detractor, rather than fixating on the negative
• Humans are described as hard-wired to notice negatives, so focusing on positives takes training
• Build a support system of like-minded people, such as a small mastermind, to offset detractors

Episode details: published October 28, 2018 · 6:51 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Sean Dollwet’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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