Welcome to Darren Daly on demand, your most trusted resource to help you become better every day.

Here's your success mentor, Darren Hardy.

People are awesome, but some of them are a little less awesome, toxic even.

Look, life's too short. There's no need to tolerate toxicity

in your life. In today's session, I'm going to help you identify four toxic personality types and

how to shut them down. Here's the deal. When you meet somebody for the first time, you are

seeing their best selves. They have their Sunday church persona on, so to speak.

But eventually, some sooner than others, you start to see a little bit of their cray-cray

come out of the can. You know what I'm talking about. They're talking, and then all of a sudden

you're like, whoa, whoa, wait, did they just, nah, couldn't have been. Then you hear it or see it again and you get a slight little pang in your stomach.

You felt it, but you ignore it, and it grows and it grows,

until they are stage four cancer in your life or your team.

The key is, as Maya Angelou taught us,

and something that I remind myself and others of all the time. She said, when people show

you who they are, believe them, and then root them out of your life. All right, let's identify the

freaky four, I call them. Number one, resenters. Resenters resent those that are smarter,

more talented, more disciplined, or more

hardworking than they are. They are P-Oed. Those people, quote unquote, don't feel the same

self-loathing that they're plagued with. Resenters are unable to offer praise or feel happy when

somebody else wins. They are wired by insecurity or the need for control

or domination. Here's how to handle them. Resenters will make you feel bad for being great.

They will take advantage of those who stop speaking up. Don't let resentors stop you from pushing

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