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Keep Your Goals Away from the Trolls

  by: Peter McWilliams, Do It: Let's Get Off Our Buts

in Follow Your Dreams, Success
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There is a type of crab that cannot be caught — it is agile and clever enough to get out of any crab trap. And yet, these crabs are caught by the thousands every day, thanks to a particular human trait they possess.

The trap is a wire cage with a hole at the top. Bait is placed in the cage, and the cage is lowered into the water. One crab comes along, enters the cage, and begins munching on the bait. A second crab joins him. A third. Crab Thanksgiving. Yummm. Eventually, however, all the bait is gone.

The crabs could easily climb up the side of the cage and through the hole, but they do not. They stay in the cage. Other crabs come along and join them — long after the bait is gone. And more.

Should one of the crabs realize there is no further reason to stay in the trap and attempts to leave, the other crabs will gang up on him and stop him. They will repeatedly pull him off the side of the cage. If he is persistent, the others will tear off his claws to keep him from climbing. If he persists still, they will kill him.

The crabs — by force of the majority — stay together in the cage. The cage is hauled up, and it’s dinnertime on the pier.

The chief difference between these crabs and humans is that these crabs live in water and humans on land.

Anyone who has a dream — one that might get them out of what they perceive to be a trap — had best beware of the fellow-inhabitants of the trap.

The human crabs (we call them trolls) do not usually use physical force — although they are certainly not above it. They generally don’t need it, however. They have more effective methods at hand, and in mouth — innuendo, doubt, ridicule, derision, mockery, sarcasm, scorn, sneering, belittlement, humiliation, jeering, taunting, teasing, lying, and dozen others not listed in our thesaurus.

The way to handle such people is the the same method used by Jonathon Joffrey Crab on his clan. (Remember that book about the crab that wasn’t content to walk around, he wanted to learn underwater ballet?) Jonathon, knowing the dangers of attempted departure from the cage, said, “Hey! This is fun! What a gathering of crabs! I’m going to go get some more!” And he danced off to freedom.

Our sugestion: keep the trolls away from your goals.

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