To be very true no one is here who never get insulted in his or her life. Insults really hurt; I know but then how to handle the insults? How can we ignore insults, or react when insulted. Hope this blog might provide you the responses.

While I was writing my last blog post on how to handle the criticism, this thought came into my mind. To be very frank criticism and insults are two entirely different things, but you never know when a criticism can have the motive of insulting you, or when you found something as insulting, that actually was a criticism only.

To be very frank if you are confident enough, then you can handle anything, be it a criticism or an insult as well.

 How to Handle the Insults

Here are some ways through which you might be able to handle insults:

 Be Confident

Being confident is the key towards handling insults. If you are confident about your own strengths, and you are aware about your weaknesses, no one will be able to do any harm to you.

Always understand one thing; people always try to demoralize someone, if they understand that they won’t have the guts to stand up for themselves only. If you are confident enough about your own strengths and weaknesses, then why to face insults? Give them the proper response.

Let me give you a real life example, which happened with me last year. One of the company in which I was working as an SEO Manager (though official designation was Online Marketing Manager, but the company never allowed me to work as online marketing manager, since the day of joining they made me the SEO manager only), appointed a person as my reporting manager, who was a flunkey guy and use to do oiliness of the boss to reach there, and the biggest problem was that he was not at all aware about anything related to online marketing, SEO, SMO, blogging, etc.

It was a real hard time to convince those types of moron guys, but then I realized the fact that soon he started to insult me and my team, just because I was not a yes man like him.

Instead of facing the continuous insults, it was better to respond him strongly and one fine morning, I gave him the reply that I am sorry I know this much of SEO only and I and my team won’t be able to do better than what we are doing right now, if you want us to quit I will be willing to do so. And I did, as for me it is of no use to face insults, when you have the ability, let’s respond to the person who is trying to insult you in a very positive manner.

What do you think about this? Is not it a common issue out here in India? I hope I discussed it in one more blog of mine on how to get success in professional life. I would like to hear from my readers only if I did anything wrong?

 Don’t React

Anyways, coming back to the original discussion of how to handle the insults, being confident is good, but then it won’t prevent you getting insulted in future. The best ways to tackle it properly is not to react.

If the person who tried bullying you sees no reactions from your side, there are chances that they will stop. Also read my blog on Bullies, give love to them.

 Forget the Insults

I know that it is very hard to forget the insults, but you should understand that if you are continuously thinking about it only, then you are only harming yourself. No need to be that much panic for any insults. You can stay away from the person who is insulting you, or you can talk to your friends or a family member, so that you can gain confidence and thus being able to forgive the person who insulted you.

Believe me my dear friends, forgiving someone who insulted you is like killing that person. Instead of insults eat away at you, it is better that you should forget the insults and forgive the person as well who did the same.

 Accept Responsibilities

Do understand one thing, if the person who is insulting you have some valid and genuine reasons then you will have to accept the fact that you made the mistake. Always accept responsibilities of your own action and then you will honestly feel that the person is insulting you because of your irresponsibility only.

I guess all the above points might help you to handle the insults. I know saying this is quite easy, then to face them really. But then you must need to understand this fact as well, if you are continuously thinking about your insults only, you are doing damage with your own personality and it is not good.

Do let me know if you have some other thought about how to handle the insults, or have some better idea about handling insults. Don’t hesitate in sharing your comment about it. I will be waiting for your comments.