Reacting As an Intense Person

By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter

I am intense and focused. If you are like me, there are times you want to rip someone’s head off. There is another way

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I’m Jeff Altman, a career and leadership coach. And I’m the head coach for two sites, JobSearchCoachinghq.com, and NoBSCoachingAdvice.com. Reacting. I’m an intense individual. And if you’re intense, and someone says something to you the wrong way, if you’re like me, there are times in my life where I have snapped and want to bite someone’s head off. If that’s you, if that’s your tendency, that’s referred to as reactive. No thought goes in. It’s completely instinctual.

I know, at times, I’ve had like a blind fury at people, where I just want to lash out, rip them a new asshole, and move on because something that they said, triggered something in me that I went ballistic over.

What I’ve learned to do over the course of time, is really very simple. Like, for example, when the phone rings like that, and I know it’s a robocall, I just want to, I want to lash out and bite someone’s head off for the interruptions that occur because it’s painful. You know, we’re all getting assaulted with this kind of stuff, and no one’s doing anything about it yet. But what I’m learning to do, and maybe this is helpful to you, is instead of reacting…