You Can Conquer Any Narcissist With These 10 Simple Tactics

Stand your ground and beat them at their own game

Michael Ndubuaku
5 min readJun 27, 2022
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The sooner you realize that the narcissist in your life is not going to change, the more time and energy you’ll be able to save and spend somewhere else. You simply cannot continue to make excuses to justify their behavior.

They don’t respect you. They don’t even recognize you as an individual with emotions. Their lack of empathy leads to an unapologetic misunderstanding of your needs and perspective. Once their anger is triggered by the tiniest thing, all hell breaks loose. Insults, confrontations, and silent treatment are regular occurrences. Such behaviors are natural to them, and so, they see no fault in it.

I repeat, the narcissist in your life is not going to change. The sooner you know this, the sooner you know peace. Conventional wisdom will tell you that distancing yourself from them is the best way to handle such people, but what happens when that person is a close member of your family or your boss at work? Surely, disowning family members and quitting jobs can’t be the “best way” to handle such situations. Besides, they’re everywhere, and you can’t keep running from every workplace. The most effective solution is to stand your ground and beat them at their own game.

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