Haters Are Inevitable In Business And Life. Here’s How To Handle Them
I first dipped my toes in the water of entrepreneurship over two decades ago when I was living in Sweden.
Back then, Swedish culture wasn’t oriented around individual achievement. No one was supposed to stand out and show their success. As a young man making good money for the first time in his life, I didn’t quite get the message.
Instead, I bought a brand new BMW.
It didn’t take long for resentment to build. Eventually, someone — I never found out who — took a baseball bat to the car. Apparently, a rumor had spread that I was making my money selling drugs. People couldn’t believe that sitting in front of a computer all day was a viable way to run a business.
Unfortunately, it wasn’t the last time I encountered resentment over the course of my career.
If you’re an entrepreneur, you’re going to meet your share of people who are envious of or disgruntled by your success.
For lack of a better term, let’s call them haters.
Haters may simply talk about you behind your back, but they might also try to stop your success or use you for their own. Running into these toxic people is inevitable as an…
