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I once was thought a very different attitude towards "difficult clients":

Embrace them. They are the ones who make you / your product better.

Without the "difficult clients" you will not improve fast enough, you will become complacent and will be out performed by others.

Now *ç%%/&% clients are a different issue, but I would not call these difficult.

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Eh, nearly no one defines difficult clients as “demanding and pushing the boundaries of technical possibility”. Pretty much everyone equates “difficult” with “demanding, but very poorly organized, uncommunicative, and lacking vision” (also often strapped for cash to boot). You really don’t gain anything from them.

Those are difficult projects, not difficult clients. Totally different beasts.

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