Some people won’t like you no matter what you do. That’s freeing: now you can do the right thing.

Universal approval is not available, and chasing it quietly hands your decisions to whoever is hardest to please. Once you accept that a certain number of people will disapprove regardless, their disapproval stops working as a signal. What remains is the actual question of what is right.

Think of a choice you have been shaping around one person’s likely reaction. Ask what you would do if their opinion were already fixed and unavailable to change. Then do that, kindly, and let them have their view without trying to argue them out of it.