Irrelevant

People respect confidence even if sometimes grudgingly. That young man I featured who runs a food review channel gets daily hate mail about his looks, the length of his fingernails and how reed thin he is and yet he is unflappable with a spine of steel and shrugs it all off.

I have often said that people smell fear and they do. Therefore our best defense is to possess confidence and not feign it. Even our detractors will admire the chutzpah they themselves wish they had.

For there is something deeply depressing about living life under the thumb of people whose opinion on our lives is entirely irrelevant.