How to De-escalate Any Situation | Tom Bilyeu AMA (Replay)
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🗓️ 9 May 2024
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Impact Theory podcast, your source of empowering ideas and actionable techniques from the world's highest achievers. |
| 0:09.0 | Join host Tom Bill You, serial entrepreneur and co-founder of the billion-dollar brand Quest Nutrition, on a journey to unlock your potential and realize your vision of success. |
| 0:19.8 | Welcome to Impact Theory. What is up, everybody? Welcome to |
| 0:28.4 | another rousing edition of the AMA. I'm your host, Tom Bill You, and I'm going to be answering |
| 0:34.1 | all of your long-held questions, hopefully some secret desires as well, pouring in. |
| 0:40.0 | We take your questions live, so don't hesitate. |
| 0:43.4 | Drop them in. |
| 0:44.0 | All right, we've got one that we're going to start with, and that is from Inessa Grevsova. |
| 0:50.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:50.9 | All right, this one comes from Facebook. |
| 0:52.4 | Hey, Tom, thank you so much for the amazing content. When you are feeling attacked, how do you de-escalate yourself from becoming spiteful? Okay, so all of this comes back. For me, everything works backwards from the goal. So what's my goal? If my goal is to maintain good relationships, regardless of whether |
| 1:12.4 | the person is attacking me or not, or if I want to make sure that I present myself in a very |
| 1:16.7 | professional manner, and a lot of this really does depend on in what circumstance I'm being attacked, |
| 1:23.0 | but one of the most amazing responses to being attacked is to not take the bait, to not |
| 1:28.6 | escalate to their level. |
| 1:30.0 | I find the people that do that really come across the best in pretty much any situation. |
| 1:36.0 | It's pretty rare that I'm going to escalate with somebody just because they're escalating. |
| 1:39.8 | So that sense of identity, that sense of like always doing what moves me towards my goals, |
| 1:44.6 | that is really what's going on internally in my head. And then the, and this applies, by the way, |
| 1:50.7 | no matter what situation, if you want to de-escalate anything in life, you're going to do |
| 1:55.5 | the same thing. So first of all, ratcheting up just usually isn't advantageous. So I'm going to diaphragm breathe. |
| 2:02.6 | And so that's going to get me out of the sympathetic nervous system because that's really |
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