Have you ever either accidently or deliberately intimidated someone?

How and why did you do it? Or, if accidental, how did it happen and what were your intentions?

I’ve seen this happen a lot on TV, and maybe a little bit in business and politics, and I wonder how people can actually get away with it. It seems to me that it’s often a bluff, and yet, if you somehow manage to cow the other party, you gain an advantage you would not otherwise get.

It also seems to me that it has a cost. I, for example, would never, ever want to work again with someone who tried to intimidate me.

I am told that I have intimidated a few people, but I believe that’s different, because I had no intention of doing so. Also they said what intimidated them was something I had no idea anyone might believe I had. In fact, I still don’t believe it, and think they got taken in, somehow, by their own projections about me.