Loving & Convincing Difficult People

Are we supposed to simply overlook other people's faults and idiosyncrasies? Right relationships with difficult people can seem like an impossible standard to reach.

- Dr Ajai Kumar Agarwal

In this regard, the Apostle Paul offers a very practical advice "If possible, so far as it depends upon you, be at peace with all men." But I would like to paraphrase that verse: Do the best you can to get along with everyone. Yet realize that once in a while you are going to have a relationship with a difficult person that may fall short of the ideal.

We all come across people with whom we do not have an ideal relationship or feel after a casual or formal chat that having this person in the list would be quite difficult and troublesome. But sometimes either the person is too important to ignore or he is already in your circle. Handling such difficult person needs extra strategy and different solution.

However, handling a difficult person is not a very difficult task if we proceed scientifically. The principle of three Ps should be our stepping stones.

These are