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Slack.com slash DHQ. So the number one question that I hear when I travel around the country

and I meet people at speaking events and that kind of thing, by far without a doubt, the

number one question I get is, how do you deal with all the hatred? I guess people have

noticed that I tend to attract quite a bit of vitriol at hatred. A lot of people don't

like me and they are very eager to let me know that they don't like me and to let me know

every day, all day constantly and in very strong terms. Now, bring out the violin and I'll

tell you more of my sad tale. No, I mean, I'm not the only one. I probably attract a

higher volume of it than most people just by the nature of what I do for a living, but

I'm certainly not the only one. I'm sure you have noticed this as well in your own life

that if you try to speak any kind of truth whatsoever, people are going to come after

you and you're going to deal with it online and in the real world. And I assume that when

people ask me this question, the reason I get it so often is that people are looking

for insights they can use in their own life, not because they want to hear my life story.

So I'm going to try, usually when I'm asked this question, the answer that I provide is

I think unsatisfactory because I just, I'm put on the spot, but now that I've had time

to think about it, I want to try to answer it again. And I think the first thing that

we have to do if we're going to talk about how to deal with the hatred from the world,

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