Introduction
The best way to take criticism is to take a balanced
position. Always be balanced in the face of criticism.
Some Home Truths about Criticism
Here are some truths about criticism that are very useful to
remember. When you are being criticised, or know that you are going to be
criticised or that you have just been criticised reading these truths will help
you.
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We can use it to improve ourselves. Because of
that it can have a good outcome.
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Not all criticism has to be constructive.
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We have to be open to both types of criticism:
constructive and non-constructive criticism.
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There is some truth in it.
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There is something false or exaggerated in it.
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Disregard the ill-will component of criticism.
Don’t allow yourself to be hurt by the ill-will you perceive coming from the other
person.
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It is only ever about a facet or aspect of your
life. It is not about the whole of you.
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We get hurt when criticised because we feel
others don’t love us.
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We get angry when criticised because we feel
that we are perfect or beyond error or that our errors should not be talked
about or corrected.
This list of trues about criticism is very important because
understanding them deeply allows us to stop the criticism from invading the
totality of our system. Don’t let the criticism become too large or big and
spread into every area of our life. Because in truth, it only pertains to a
small area of our life. If we let it go into every area of our life then that
is where we enter to depression.
Conclusion
Reading the list after we have been criticised will helps us
to neutralise the hurt or offense or disappointment that we feel when we get
criticised. It will also turn us toward the active of correcting the faults in
ourselves that attracted the criticism. Usually we hit the floor and don’t feel
any energy or drive what so ever to correct our faults that brought about the
criticism.
End (178).
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