The best way to deal with toxic people || Acharya Prashant, with NIT-Calicut (2022)

Questioner (Q): Namaste Sir. My question is, how to deal with the toxic people in our daily life, where sometimes their behaviour adds negativity and upsets my life? And how to deal with such situation and how to stay positive when I am dealing with such personalities?

Acharya Prashant (Q): How did you, first of all, manage to accommodate so many toxic people in your daily life? Like attracts like. My question to you is: how did you, first of all, have so many toxic people gravitated to you, how did that happen? It’s a miracle.

Q: Not so many, Sir. One or two people, they are always manipulating.

AP: Even those two people, how are they managing to stick around. Why are they still in your sensory or mental domain? Why do you see them? Why do you think of them?

Q: Because I can’t avoid them.

AP: That’s exactly what toxicity is—something that cannot be avoided. That’s everybody’s apology and explanation, just as you say you cannot avoid toxic people, similarly, the toxic people say they cannot avoid being toxic. That’s everybody’s apology, now what do you do? Tell me.