“Criticism: the
only chance we have got to do something better, make something better, and be
someone better.”
Two years ago he was in the
same spot, sitting in the same chair, in a different dress. Like then he can’t describe
in exact words what it was like sitting in that chair, but he can measure the
feeling: the feeling that once swept through his puffy cheeks, through every nooks
and crannies of his shilling body completely rendering him mentally confiscated
in the tiny space of overwhelming intellectual gasp. Tony’s critiques are back,
and they are doing a pretty good job in making him feel bad.
Day in day out, in living
and in functioning we come across pebbles like the above in our various tiles
of duties: people who feel, and will always have something to say concerning
and about everything that goes on and on around them; whether or not it does actually
in the real sense concerns them. This naturally so unnaturally done mouth
tethering co-factoring many factors may by circumstances turned out annoying as
in Tony’s, or frustrating as the case is in reality. Nonetheless still, when we
take a peep into the brighter side, there is always as always, two sides to
every story.
Criticism though most of
the time can be that uncomfortable, it does so openly challenge us to do
something better, make something better, and be someone better. Whether constructively
done or destructively constructed, the result can always be the same only if
you can see the bigger picture. Everything in life if you must understand stands
a common weakness: the open provision for maneuvering. The goodness in good can
be made evil as much as the wrong in a wrong can be made a right. It is your
willingness and readiness to see beyond the obvious intent that allows you to
connect and tapped into the streams of benefit inherent in critiques
criticisms.
For an example, four years
ago on a popular online forum I decided after reading a lot of stories to give
writing a short. I started, and there were a lot of comments. Most of them
discouraging. Words and statements like: “what’s worth doing is worth doing
well” began to surface. Things like: “I do admire your boldness to make an
effort, but you ending up making a bad one I do not admire. This is really
really bad, I must tell you the truth.” Now that was me trying to have a hinge
on writing. And I did not at that time get it right until I begin to see the
brighter side of things. Instead of me getting discouraged by those talks, I only
get to make something better; improving my writing skills as a person. Because,
as at that time, a mirror could get to see how poor my writing skills were
which, by myself I didn’t get to see until criticism brought it to a limelight.
Criticism no matter the
intent always have an advantage, constructively or destructively done. For
constructive criticism, you have a chance to make something better; improve on
something: the quality of your goods as a wholesaler, your delivery system as a
retailer, and your communication skills as a receptionist in a firm, hotel, or a
company. You actually with destructive criticism have as an artist a golden
opportunity of making a better music for your fans instead of smashing it all in
their faces. As a leader a chance to be flexible when your followers start
complaining about the strictness of your leadership style. As a terrible cook
in the home of your husband, just don’t flare things up when your husband gets
a kick from it.
In reacting positively to
criticism, we do not only get to invest in our own lives, we do as well check
our critiques with a maturity gag. Let’s say you get criticized about your
poor sense of fashion as an artist, and you have it corrected. Again, for criticizing
sake you get another one from another angle and you do exactly the same thing.
Each and every single time instead of sucking in on criticism you do the
contrary by taking into consideration every important elements. This wears out
your critiques, but not only wears them out, it as well forces them to
acknowledge your composed composure which in another way is acknowledging your
intellectual superiority in life.
A knife can either
slaughter a chicken, or it can slaughter another human. Either way it plays out
is our choice and decision. Criticism as a case can, if embraced, bring the
best in you out or, if reacted to, brings the worst in you. For you, I will
suggest the former.
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