Once again it’s the premise that’s fucked up and not the conclusion: both advice and criticism aren’t something one should take only when one chooses to, and never without thorough inspection.
And now I imagine the sort of person that walks through life actively rejecting advice and criticism except from a few selected peers. Yep, I think I cracked this one.
The point is that you need to figure out which advice and criticism is useful. You shouldn’t dismiss everything but you shouldn’t accept everything either.
In my interpretation, this is not about “I know better than everyone else” but about “That person has hurt me so much in the past. Maybe I should not take their criticism to heart anymore.”
Most criticism tends to be useless, unfair, emotional venting or social posturing; with the intention to manipulate or denigrate. Finding someone who gives good, targeted, and neutral criticism is extremely rare. Mostly you end up having to guess and extrapolate someone’s true, actionable feedback from their criticism, while filtering out criticism that was never applicable in the first place
This one really makes me think.
Once again it’s the premise that’s fucked up and not the conclusion: both advice and criticism aren’t something one should take only when one chooses to, and never without thorough inspection.
And now I imagine the sort of person that walks through life actively rejecting advice and criticism except from a few selected peers. Yep, I think I cracked this one.
The point is that you need to figure out which advice and criticism is useful. You shouldn’t dismiss everything but you shouldn’t accept everything either.
In my interpretation, this is not about “I know better than everyone else” but about “That person has hurt me so much in the past. Maybe I should not take their criticism to heart anymore.”
Most criticism tends to be useless, unfair, emotional venting or social posturing; with the intention to manipulate or denigrate. Finding someone who gives good, targeted, and neutral criticism is extremely rare. Mostly you end up having to guess and extrapolate someone’s true, actionable feedback from their criticism, while filtering out criticism that was never applicable in the first place
You don’t take criticisms well, huh?
What do you mean?