You won’t stop those that really want to gossip, judge and probe into peoples lives.
The method I used to express I’m not interested when they continue to engage, beside the obvious method of not engaging in it and not talking behind peoples backs, was to say:
Small minds talk about people, average minda talk about events, and great minds discuss ideas.
Then they can sit with that and figure out if they want to take the insult of being a small mind.
I also found that when there is the office Joke teller that just tells annoyingly lame jokes, that when they approach you and tell a joke, then reply with:
I heard Jokes are a prop for people who aren’t inherently funny.
They won’t approach you again :)






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