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The “No” People Who Don’t Know Better

Some people will try to tear you down; don’t let them

Lucas Hawthorne
4 min readAug 3, 2018

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In the face of opposition, will you crumble or will you crush?

I’ve recently begun joining crypto communities and groups on Facebook in order to interact with others and share the greatness that is the crypto mining company I work with. In some of my posts, I have been met with degradation and disrespect of those who dismiss me and the company as scammers. I often feel like I become somewhat of a laughingstock in such situations.

I then tend to find myself trying to defend my position as a representative of a legitimate company, feeling frustrated in the process with having to deal with the immaturity of others. Questions flood my mind:

Why did people have to be so rude?
If they didn’t agree, why didn’t they just move along?
Why did they have to comment something uncalled for?

Then I remembered something very important about business (not just crypto business) and life in general: you’re going to have to deal with THOSE people.

Those people who knock you down.
Those people who laugh at what you do.
Those people who won’t show you an…

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Lucas Hawthorne
Lucas Hawthorne

Written by Lucas Hawthorne

A guide to life and self-improvement, brought to you by a magazine-published Gen Z-er. I'm not on Medium anymore, find me here: https://www.lucashawthorne.com/

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