Ah Grasshopper, you must learn to avoid
I learned a huge lesson in the last 15 years of my life and that is avoidance. The horn is blown for victory but there is also the soft sweet toot of retreat. Hardly anyone lays claims to the magic of avoidance.
Say you are faced with a person who has behaved time and time in a consistent way, one which is disagreeable to you – you might first try to change it, hit it head on, find a solution, but finding little success, you might simply retreat people – the horn is blown for retreat too – you must study the art of avoidance as a useful tool of deflection.
It is a studied art that I learned from a master. Avoid, ignore, make yourself invisible – problem, well maybe not solved, but certainly reduced to a trickle of annoyance.