WILLED DREAMS REVIEWS "ONE OF MY FAVOURITE TENETS " > LIVING TENETS #103 & 105 [ON BULLIES AND HATERS]

Often a reader's warm review includes their favourite Tenet.

After receiving only positive comments for Living Tenets on bullies and haters, I was ambivalent about posting this.

But after reading yet another senseless teenage suicide this morning resulting from bullying and hatred, I changed my mind...Living Tenet?#103 & #105...

[ON BULLIES AND HATERS]

103.??????Can I tell you what I learned about haters and bullies: The only way of beating haters and bullies is taking care of yourself and your family first. Excel, run your race. Haters and bullies are distractions. You will encounter them from elementary school into your career. Haters and bullies, besides being cowards, they never last, always come in last...and all have PhD’s from FMU...F^cking Moron University.

Some of us will get an extra helping of haters and bullies because of our color, religion, nationality, accomplishments. Can I tell you that they are the dust I see in my rear view mirror.

105.?????Can I tell you what I learned about social media: History will record social media as one of the greatest human achievements.

But, social media has confused a generation. Thirty years ago no one heard from complainers. We heard from doers. Today complainers overcrowd a podium and doers rarely use a podium. They just do. Doers don’t have time to complain. Complainers seem to have all the time in the world to complain. That makes them more convincing. They and their follower 'friends' (1500 people they never met) are under informed, zealous, hyper-opinionated.

People who instead of doing something (proactive) about what they perceive to be an issue, whine posting passive-aggressive crap and long boring text with faulty logic, hokie intuition, pseudoscience all over the internet. Such people aren’t interested in the truth, or choose not to know the truth, because they find the narrative they cooked up more self- satisfying.

Much too often, there are irresponsible people who abuse the power of the podium’s reach by turning their keyboard into a self-serving machine gun maliciously aimed with the intent to bully honourable, decent people and reputations.

People start believing complainers. When you get recruited into the complainers camp, you may be there for years until you snap out of it.

The complainers playbook is simple: Everything is someone else's fault. Their business model doesn’t produce results. It only produces victims.

Meanwhile, doers keep doing. Here’s some good news. History favours the doers.

Bonus: If you think technology, apps and devices will solve your problems, then you don’t understand technology and you don’t understand your problems.

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