Please read if you also pretend that easy Things are difficult

Today and in the next two days, I would like to write about a few different kinds of people. Or actually about different reactions and ways how to handle any new tasks, information or problems. I will start with people who will always and knowingly make anything seem difficult, near-to impossible!

I am sure you know such people: you tell them about a plan you have and they frown, look at you doubtingly and finally tell you several reasons why that won’t work, won’t be easy and may even not work at all. The joke is: they know it is not difficult at all!

Yes, I am talking about ideas that are not even very far-fetched, about plans that are realizable and very much so but which they decide to present differently. The reason for this behavior? To make you feel it is very difficult and then, when they manage to ‘help you’ and fix your issue, make you feel very thankful and obliged. They enjoy this attention, they love the way you are relieved and thankful to them.

Obviously, it is the best that can happen for their ego!

Often they fool themselves into thinking this, too – they know it is easy but then decide to make it difficult over such a long time that they nearly believe it themselves. Once they succeed, it feels so great to have managed something so difficult!

That is why they make a huge fuss out of every small thing. They can never have anything easy in life because they want to be the big heroes, they want to be admired and want to be seen as achievers of the most difficult tasks!

Whenever you see such a person and approach him or her with a task, you will hear how difficult it is. No matter how difficult it really could be, you won’t ever hear that it is easy or can be done without problem. In professional life you have to be careful: these people will cheat you into believing that they have done a big service which they can charge a big amount of money for – while all they did was one small move, one small change and everything was done!

On the other hand they will really put everything into solving your problem, even if it is difficult, so that they can take the credit for it!

But you won’t ever feel really comfortable discussing anything new with them because you won’t ever get their honest opinion but always negative feedback, whatever you say!