The number of life lessons one can glean from Ted Lasso is quite impressive, as fans can attest. The famously feel-good series, known for its heart and humor, offers a hefty helping of psycho-emotional wisdom wrapped in a humble, folksy package.

The popular YouTube channel Charisma on Demand has compiled and packaged some of that wisdom in a video about how to handle disrespect. Most of us will, at some point, find ourselves on the receiving end of judgment, rudeness, passive-aggressive attacks, or other forms of disrespect. As Dr. Nina Ahuja writes in Psychology Today, disrespect can change us, affecting our willingness to speak up, our self-image, and our ability to recognize its impact over time.

But with some conscious strategies, we can avoid letting disrespect derail us and even become “immune” to it.

Charisma on Demand shared six ways to wisely handle disrespect, with examples from Ted Lasso (which you can watch in the video above):

Remember disrespect isn’t about you

Even though it can feel very personal, someone’s disrespect has nothing to do with you.

“Sometimes it can be the other person’s insecurity or their fear, and sometimes it’s their need to feel superior,” the video states. “For many people, they’ve been using these defense mechanisms for so long that it’s simply just become a habit. Whatever the reason, it’s always coming from them, not you.”

You aren’t responsible for the way someone else behaves, and what they do or say broadcasts something about them, not you.

It’s easy to internalize anything that feels critical or negative toward us and start wondering what we need to change about ourselves. “Sometimes we become so convinced that we’re the ones to blame that we see disrespect where it wasn’t even intended,” the video points out.

Assume........

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