A man a plan a canal – Panama!

You are intelligent, so it can be assumed that the plan is a good solid plan. It can be assumed that you thought out the next several steps. It can be assumed the goal you are moving your boat towards is an important part of the big picture.

It is understandable why you would be upset that one of the crew members is rowing against the team. Trying to go off on his or her own direction.

Your boat will eventually get to where you are going, but to maximize efficiency, you need all the crew members rowing in the same direction.

When one member consistently questions the method of getting to a goal, and suggests several alternative routes, that crew member is becoming counterproductive.

It could be that this person is actually working against you. it could be that they are afraid of success. It could be as simple as they feel that every avenue should be explored before taking a step forward.

The trouble is, if you scan the entire ocean to find the safest path, you will still be sitting at the docks decades from now. Safe is fine, but safe is stagnant.

You should consider your ship to be a shark. If it is not moving forward, it will die. Anything that gets in the way of forward progress becomes a threat to the life of your ship and is therefore something that needs to be eliminated.

For some reason when you face off against the asshole, you turn into a blithering idiot. You argue over the stupidest thing. You raise your voice. You pump sweat from your armpits like you were a water treatment plant. You begin to spit when you talk. You flail. You…

You… become an asshole.

How is this transformation made possible? How can someone like you, intelligent, witty, good looking, funny, and one hell of a dapper dresser, turn into the garrulous, mundane, argumentative, peice of shit you have come to hate so much in life. You act like being an asshole is contagious.

Being an asshole is not a contagious disease, it is a disease that feeds on weakness.

You have to be a strong person. You have to be a bigger person. You have to realize that eventually karma does pay off. You also have to remember that an asshole feeds on confrontation. By turning into the festering sore on the back thigh of humanity, and screaming and shouting at an asshole, you give them exactly what they crave. You feed their pathetic ego, and drive them to follow along the same course.

Assholes are a cancer on your life and they should be cut out. Immediatly and without prejudice.

If your asshole is the boss, find a new job.

If your asshole is an employee, fire them.

If your asshole is your significant other, become single (quickly).

You don’t have to be an asshole to succeed. You just have to steer your ship around the assbergs in life.