You've got to build a relationship. You can't just deal with people when it's business. If it is, then you always have to assume that they have an angle when they come at you.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I don't think I should be giving out relationship advice! You have to accept each other for who they are and what they will be able to modify in their behavior and what you can modify in your behavior to create a better relationship.
You just need to put yourself in someone else's shoes and then see how they feel and then you will understand why they are reacting or why they are behaving the way that they are behaving. We need to be fair.
If you have an ongoing relationship with a person, think of everything positive about that person that you possibly can and enter your interaction from that space. Ignore all the crap that used to drive you up the wall before. You will be amazed at what a change this attitude shift brings about.
In a relationship you want to treat people the way you want to be treated.
If you really want to get along with somebody, let them be themselves.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
If you want to get along with somebody, let them be right, and it will last longer.
If you really want to be able to express what goes on with other people, you have to be able to look at them and empathize with them and not judge who they are and what they do.
In this business, it's easy for either your heart or your head to be swayed, and I try to always stay true to who I am.
You have to stick out the toughness of the business and form relationships with the people in it.
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