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Jefferson Fisher

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The Jefferson Fisher Podcast
Outsmarting Narcissists: The Praise or Provoke Trap

It's not that you're not a winner. You haven't failed. You're not a loser. It is a game that is set up to fail. Have you ever played one of those carnival games? You've gone to like a local carnival. A real bad one. Like you know good and well they don't take care of anything. They're just a few rusted bolts away from it all destroying itself.

The Jefferson Fisher Podcast
Outsmarting Narcissists: The Praise or Provoke Trap

It's not that you're not a winner. You haven't failed. You're not a loser. It is a game that is set up to fail. Have you ever played one of those carnival games? You've gone to like a local carnival. A real bad one. Like you know good and well they don't take care of anything. They're just a few rusted bolts away from it all destroying itself.

The Jefferson Fisher Podcast
Outsmarting Narcissists: The Praise or Provoke Trap

You ever gone to one of those carnival games and you're like, I can do this. I can toss the ring on the bottle. I can pop the balloon. I can shoot that basketball. Not a problem. And you try it and it doesn't work. Let me try it again. And before you know it, you're $20 in on a game And it's like, this is not beatable. Because it's not. It's rigged. The game is rigged. It was never fair.

The Jefferson Fisher Podcast
Outsmarting Narcissists: The Praise or Provoke Trap

You ever gone to one of those carnival games and you're like, I can do this. I can toss the ring on the bottle. I can pop the balloon. I can shoot that basketball. Not a problem. And you try it and it doesn't work. Let me try it again. And before you know it, you're $20 in on a game And it's like, this is not beatable. Because it's not. It's rigged. The game is rigged. It was never fair.

The Jefferson Fisher Podcast
Outsmarting Narcissists: The Praise or Provoke Trap

You ever gone to one of those carnival games and you're like, I can do this. I can toss the ring on the bottle. I can pop the balloon. I can shoot that basketball. Not a problem. And you try it and it doesn't work. Let me try it again. And before you know it, you're $20 in on a game And it's like, this is not beatable. Because it's not. It's rigged. The game is rigged. It was never fair.

The Jefferson Fisher Podcast
Outsmarting Narcissists: The Praise or Provoke Trap

It will never be fair. That's exactly the situation you're in. It's not fair. No, it's not. And guess what? It will never be fair. You can only choose not to play it. You can only choose not to play it. So number one is this mindset. When you are talking to these personalities that exhibit strong narcissistic behaviors or a pattern of it, understand you are playing their game.

The Jefferson Fisher Podcast
Outsmarting Narcissists: The Praise or Provoke Trap

It will never be fair. That's exactly the situation you're in. It's not fair. No, it's not. And guess what? It will never be fair. You can only choose not to play it. You can only choose not to play it. So number one is this mindset. When you are talking to these personalities that exhibit strong narcissistic behaviors or a pattern of it, understand you are playing their game.

The Jefferson Fisher Podcast
Outsmarting Narcissists: The Praise or Provoke Trap

It will never be fair. That's exactly the situation you're in. It's not fair. No, it's not. And guess what? It will never be fair. You can only choose not to play it. You can only choose not to play it. So number one is this mindset. When you are talking to these personalities that exhibit strong narcissistic behaviors or a pattern of it, understand you are playing their game.

The Jefferson Fisher Podcast
Outsmarting Narcissists: The Praise or Provoke Trap

And you can say, well, I'm just not going to play. That's true. You can not play. And that would be my advice. Ideally, yeah, you never deal with these people. Ideally, yeah, you don't talk to them. But again, like I started at the outset of this episode, it's not reality oftentimes. Now you could say, I'm out of here. I'm not talking to you. And you're gone. It's just not practical.

The Jefferson Fisher Podcast
Outsmarting Narcissists: The Praise or Provoke Trap

And you can say, well, I'm just not going to play. That's true. You can not play. And that would be my advice. Ideally, yeah, you never deal with these people. Ideally, yeah, you don't talk to them. But again, like I started at the outset of this episode, it's not reality oftentimes. Now you could say, I'm out of here. I'm not talking to you. And you're gone. It's just not practical.

The Jefferson Fisher Podcast
Outsmarting Narcissists: The Praise or Provoke Trap

And you can say, well, I'm just not going to play. That's true. You can not play. And that would be my advice. Ideally, yeah, you never deal with these people. Ideally, yeah, you don't talk to them. But again, like I started at the outset of this episode, it's not reality oftentimes. Now you could say, I'm out of here. I'm not talking to you. And you're gone. It's just not practical.

The Jefferson Fisher Podcast
Outsmarting Narcissists: The Praise or Provoke Trap

It sounds good when somebody writes it in a comment. It's not practical. this is something where I want you to actually be equipped for real life. And if I'm not doing that, then I'm not doing my job, and then I'm not even following my passion. And what's the point of that? You're in a game called praise or provoke. Get that in your mind when you talk to these people.

The Jefferson Fisher Podcast
Outsmarting Narcissists: The Praise or Provoke Trap

It sounds good when somebody writes it in a comment. It's not practical. this is something where I want you to actually be equipped for real life. And if I'm not doing that, then I'm not doing my job, and then I'm not even following my passion. And what's the point of that? You're in a game called praise or provoke. Get that in your mind when you talk to these people.

The Jefferson Fisher Podcast
Outsmarting Narcissists: The Praise or Provoke Trap

It sounds good when somebody writes it in a comment. It's not practical. this is something where I want you to actually be equipped for real life. And if I'm not doing that, then I'm not doing my job, and then I'm not even following my passion. And what's the point of that? You're in a game called praise or provoke. Get that in your mind when you talk to these people.

The Jefferson Fisher Podcast
Outsmarting Narcissists: The Praise or Provoke Trap

It doesn't matter what you do. If you're not feeding them with control, if you're not feeding the monster with your emotions, whether it's happy emotions or sad emotions, they will turn into the worst types of personalities you'll ever experience where you go, I cannot do it. And I know you want to fix it. That's what, you're good.

The Jefferson Fisher Podcast
Outsmarting Narcissists: The Praise or Provoke Trap

It doesn't matter what you do. If you're not feeding them with control, if you're not feeding the monster with your emotions, whether it's happy emotions or sad emotions, they will turn into the worst types of personalities you'll ever experience where you go, I cannot do it. And I know you want to fix it. That's what, you're good.

The Jefferson Fisher Podcast
Outsmarting Narcissists: The Praise or Provoke Trap

It doesn't matter what you do. If you're not feeding them with control, if you're not feeding the monster with your emotions, whether it's happy emotions or sad emotions, they will turn into the worst types of personalities you'll ever experience where you go, I cannot do it. And I know you want to fix it. That's what, you're good.

The Jefferson Fisher Podcast
Outsmarting Narcissists: The Praise or Provoke Trap

I know if you're listening to this episode, you're a good person because you're trying to figure out how do I do it? How do I navigate these situations? You want to fix it. That's the rigged game. That's the rigged game, baby. It looks beatable. It looks beatable.

The Jefferson Fisher Podcast
Outsmarting Narcissists: The Praise or Provoke Trap

I know if you're listening to this episode, you're a good person because you're trying to figure out how do I do it? How do I navigate these situations? You want to fix it. That's the rigged game. That's the rigged game, baby. It looks beatable. It looks beatable.

The Jefferson Fisher Podcast
Outsmarting Narcissists: The Praise or Provoke Trap

I know if you're listening to this episode, you're a good person because you're trying to figure out how do I do it? How do I navigate these situations? You want to fix it. That's the rigged game. That's the rigged game, baby. It looks beatable. It looks beatable.