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Originally Posted by TrentCrimmIndependent
When someone informs me that someone was trash talking me when I'm not around, I just take it as a challenge to win that person over. And then I suffocate them with empathy and use simple social strategies to build rapport and over time they change their tune, almost every time.
It's kind of fun.
9/10 times it's just because that person assumed I was something else before getting to know me.
It's not for every one, but a good way to end the gossip (because people will no matter what) is to dissolve the "beef" itself.
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I dunno man, it's probably not a good sign that this has happened enough times that you've come up with a whole strategy to deal with it...