Welcome to today's episode of the Mindset Mentor Podcast. I'm your host, Rob Dial. If you have

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subscribe button and follow along. Today, I'm going to be talking about how to deal with

aggressive people because aggressive people exist in this world. There's nothing that you and I

can do to change that. But what you can do

is arm yourself with the best tools and techniques and knowledge about what is actually going on

in the situation so that you can better protect yourself. And so when you find yourself in an argument

or in a verbal attack,

you know exactly what to do to remove yourself from it and be able to protect your own mental

health. So let's dive in, okay? Let's start with the heat. Let's start with the fire. Let's start with

the full-on confrontation moment. We can both think of one of those moments

that's happened in our life, right? You know the feeling when you're in that situation and it's,

it's heightened. It might be an argument. It might be disagreement. It might be somebody's got

road rage on the road, whatever it might be. Your heart is racing. You're not breathing very well.

You're short, tight breathing. Your body's kind of tight. You feel like you're either about to

snap or just completely shut down. You don't really know what to do. And in those situations,

that's not you being dramatic in any way. That's actually your nervous system doing its job.

It's deciding without your permission at all, whether it is going to fight, flight,

or freeze.

Fight, that means that I'm going to argue, I'm going to yell, I'm going to escalate the

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