When you react to a crowd, no matter how small that reaction is, you are ceding control of yourself and that real estate to that crowd. You are giving the crowd control. You are allowing them to externally manipulate you.
Don‘t let them draw you in. It’s what they want.
Exactly right! Usually, I have no difficulty ignoring them. Every once in a great while, I am tempted. But I always remind myself that I can't even glance their way. I can never let them know they got to me. And I can never lower my head as if I'm hiding. Stand tall, and know that they're looking for even the slightest hint that they've "got to you." You can never give them that, or you're done.