Worry not for the opinion of Coworkers, Friends, or Strangers

Epictetus said: "If someone reports back to you that so-and-so is saying bad things about you, do not reply to them but answer, "Obviously, he didn't know my other bad characterisitics, since otherwise he wouldn't just have mentioned these." (Nicholas P. White, THE HANDBOOK OF EPICTETUS, Hakett Publishing Company, USA, 1983)

Let the negative thoughts and energy slide past you, be the Teflon human. Once bad energy sticks to you, it becomes yours. Once you own it you can’t sell it, you are stuck.

The seers of the bad want to stack monkeys on your back, you must not allow that, do not let the weak and inferior captain your ship.

If at work people don’t like you for your work or personality, seek them out at the lunch table and the water cooler. Engage them socially wherever you can, their bad take on the universe is not a guideline to define the self, but a shield of power.

In the end the facts speak, if you are in tune with that which matters, your hassle factor will decline.