Get Good Anger Management Dealing With Difficult People Without Losing Your Cool by Juels Thomas As musicians and support staff, we work in an environment with so many different personalities and egos constantly swerving around. It’s impossible to avoid a crash sometimes. We’ve all had to deal with a club manager, front-of-house engineer, guitarist, etc., who seemingly always just woke up on the wrong side of hell. Even chronically nice people can have bad moods. The first thing to remember when you’re caught in a tense situation is to not immediately take it personally. All people have triggers that they can’t control. Maybe they didn’t sleep well last night, or they’re hungry, or they just sat in three hours of horrendous traffic. (Trust me—you do not want to witness the wrath that is me inside a car on a Southern California freeway after a sleepless night and no lunch.) Another […]