How to Deal with Idiots!

Gilda Given
4 min readOct 15, 2022

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\noun: plural noun: idiots — a stupid person. A person of low intelligence.

How do you know that you are an important being?

It’s when people give you attention — either, it be for love or hate, as long as people give you attention it’s clear that you are an important being to them.

Glady, I am part of that attention, and thank God it is for the good. Thanks to Davis who asked me to share how to deal with idiots after sharing this quote on one of the groups on WhatsApp…

“Sometimes you need to understand what kind of people you are dealing with in your life once you get to know them it becomes an easier task to deal with them —the idiots and smarter ones.’’

From Davis’s perspective, it’s true that dealing with idiots isn’t something we should take for granted and it’s good to be aware of idiots and find ways to deal with them.

Pricey, you might raise a question; why should we care about them and I would rephrase it to why shouldn’t we?

I will tell you why.

The moment we aren’t paying attention to what is happening outside ourselves, we will also find that we are losing control even inside us (as) — as humans, we are emotionally customized.

On the other side, life happens in many ways. Sometimes it happens in a way that destructs our peace and calmness, but also as it can only destruct you as to how you are giving attention to what happened to you — the way you react or respond.

But what if they are so many events that happen to us and in every event, where there is an idiot involved? Like, finding yourself in an environment where idiots are greater than the smart ones?

It means you need to know how to deal with them. It’s simple like me telling you this…

“Sometimes you need to understand what kind of people you are dealing with in your life once you get to know them it becomes an easier task to deal with the — the idiots and smarter ones.”

So how do we deal with Idiots?

Do not argue with them

If you argue with a person of low intelligence (idiot) it's a way of giving them attention, and your energy, and it is a free promotion through your thoughts — they don’t deserve it.

Yet, if you are smart you understand that silence is always a key.

Yet, I don’t mean that you should let people treat you anyhow, like an idiot— for real, but being in silence and be able to see if there must be a response to whatever that someone is saying to you.

Like, you can share one sentence, then you mean what you say and that communicates not only how strong your words are but also how serious you want to be perceived by them.

Do not argue with any idiots especially when you know a certain conversation isn’t worth of response. Enact your thinking, go deep and see does this person deserve my attention, if they don’t why argue with them? It’s a waste of time and energy.

Create a boundary when dealing with Idiots

You know boundary speaks a lot.

As what I know for sure is that we are the ones who teach people how to treat us. If we allow anyone to treat us anyhow then why don’t you think idiots can’t get over you?

Create a strong boundary and be the man you say you are. Walk your talk and let people know this is your standard of living — if they are not into it get them off. Period!

Give them a silent treatment

This is powerful. It’s one of the psychological tricks that anyone can use yet you need to be a conscious being and someone who can stand up for himself or herself.

Like you can’t walk in a room then you opt to not say Hi to anyone and feel bad about it later — like you need to be cold-hearted; for goodness sake.

Yet, I can only recommend this if you know you are the kind of person who can embrace individuality and singularity.

Like you aren’t co-depending on others to make you feel happy or sad.

Someone who can stand for himself/herself with whatever that belief even if there are 1,000 people behind saying that it’s wrong or you are nothing.

Yet still standing :)

Ignore them, Do not give them your attention

Humans are socially hard-wired.

Trust me, there are people out there if you tell them to stay alone or if you put them in a room alone for a day they get bored, depressed, or confused.

They have this logging of connection and need to feel seen or loved.

Yet, if you do have the power of individuality, you are the kind of person who thinks singularly and you aren’t co-depending others to rectify who you are then you win all idiot's games as they don’t have the same traits as you.

Ignore idiots and don’t give them your attention.

Like you don't care, you don't even notice if they do exist — and that is true power, my friend :)

G.

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Gilda Given

Author | On a mission to help you live that which is true to yourself