In his book, How to Win Friends and Influence People, Dave Carnegie said that humans hate negative criticism.
At that time, I thought it was just emotional stuffs.
However, negative criticism does not only hurt emotionally but can also hurt your interests realistically.
Most of negative criticisms are not true. Even if its true, its not worth paying attention to.
John Maxwell said that we should spend at least 70% of our time on our strengths and only 5% on our weaknesses. Negative criticism puts too much of our attention on what were weak at.
If somebody tells David Beckham, a great soccer player, that hes such an idiot because he cant play golf, do you think David should pay attention to that and learn golf instead?
We probably cannot improve too much the points that were weak at anyway. Moreover, by allocating resources to improve our weakness were taking away resources that could have gone to improve our strength.
However, the world is full with so many people that would rain down negative criticism to their neighbors.
These acts are often justified by strange fairy tales. For example, the purpose of school is to...
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