Shine and Continue to be Unbothered

<h1>Don't Ever Let Anyone Make You Devalue Yourself</h1><p>This segment explores toxic people in the workplace. Three traits are consistent among these chaos agents. Don’t let them get you down!</p><p>0:03</p><p>Good evening and welcome to my humble podcast abode. I am Coco Griot, just a 50 something who likes talking about life, love and a host of other topics. My favorite quote by Friedrich Nietzsche is "The higher we sore, the smaller we become to those that cannot fly". A recent conversation with a colleague made me think about this quote in depht. There are people that don't like themselves. You have no control, how inadequate or insecure, these people feel. Many times an individual will hate you because you remind them of their deficiencies. Now, this is not something you do on purpose, it just happens, you are just wonderful. You being you shines the light on the things they hate about themselves. So tonight, I'm exploring the topic of toxic workplaces. The traits that make a workplace toxic really boils down to the people. I titled this piece, shine, and continue to be unbothered, but that is not easy to do. </p><p>1:14</p><p>Our society thrives on competition. In order for someone to be the best, someone else has to be less than. This is drilled into our minds in many areas of life. But you know, in some places competition is just not welcome. How does workplace competition and envy affect performance? I'm not an expert, so I decided to do a little research and I want to share my findings with you. Please don't tune out. This might help you or someone you care about. I consulted an Inc. magazine article about toxic people in the workplace. It was super helpful. The first trait of the toxic co worker is they make everything about them. I mean everything. Let me give you a personal example of this. People were extending their condolences to someone who just lost their mom. I mean it was like in that week. The toxic person starts talking about how they felt when their mom died 20 years ago, we were speechle