How to Be Disliked
I found myself moved by this JP Brammer post some days ago. It’s a simple advice post.1 The person who writes in is wondering how to handle, how to live with, his near-certainty that the group of people he exercises with (for example) all hate him. I think I appreciated it because I don’t often hear people just say outright, “I think a lot about other people’s opinions of me and it hurts so much that it makes my days hard to get through.”
It is vaguely discrediting, somehow, to admit out loud that one hates to be disliked.2