When people feel threatened, they go into a defensive "foxhole" mindset driven by fight-or-flight response. In that state, they can't process advice because they're focused on perceived threats instead of new information. It's self-protection, not dismissal.
What they're doing is they're not ignoring you. They're protecting themselves. They're protecting themselves. Think about it. If you're in a foxhole, okay, and there's bullets going by all the time, you're not going to stand up. You're going to stay in your foxhole. That's what you're going to do, right? Your fight or flight. So you're stuck in, in victim mode here. They see all the bullets that are passing them over their heads. That's all the advice that That's all of the society pressures. That's all of that stuff. So they don't feel safe. When you're in a protective stance like that, you're not going to be making the best decisions. You're not going to be thinking clearly, right? If you're in a foxhole and there's bullets whizzing by, that's not the time you're going to come up with a billion-dollar idea. Is everyone following me so far? Put a 1 in chat. Okay. Yeah. So we have to understand that they are protecting themselves. Okay. And that's the biggest thing that, that I want you to know.
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