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Understanding our Criticis

At times, I hate the person most who throw a criticism on my idea or

work which I see as life changing. It makes me sceptic about the person
and I even prematurely judge the person as my enemy.

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ost of such times, it ends up in a conflict or
negatively provoking me to go after the person.
MBut do all of our critics are our enemies? Not “For instance, a student faced rude
really! Apart from the fact that criticism has a unique role in
literature and many businesses take criticism as a feedback criticism from a peer on her class
and improve their product or service based on it. In this presentation and feeling provoked as
article, we shall be seeing criticism from the lens of a person
who face criticism. she thought the criticism is not just.
The two possible scenarios emerge
Have we ever see someone working for us as free labour?
No! not our parents or siblings, actually our critics. A critic in this case; in the first scenario the
spends its time and energy to look into and evaluate our student react to her critic with anger
idea, work or actions and comes up with some critical and in return gets the same angry
observations. Yes, our very psychological construct at first
see the criticism is an attack on our intellectual integrity and response again eventually leading to a
it might trigger insecurity or fear of losing. But what actually disrupted presentation and revealing
if we see the critic has actually worked for us to review our
idea and identified potential loopholes in the view point. herself as intolerant. In the second
We should probably be thankful to our critics and consider scenario the student appreciates her
if our free labor had actually allowed us to not repeat a peer for raising concerns and moves on
mistake.
to her presentation to complete it. The
Students like many other professionals do often face
criticism from peers or professors and interestingly they second case indeed reflect a mature,
are most likely to misinterpret the spirit of criticism as they humble and professional student than
might have been less exposed to complex interactions in the first case and her jealous peer
before which eventually lead to panic or disappointment.
When we face criticism, our brain activates its response will be exposed as unproductive and
system which defines the behavioural pathway to follow. conflict prone.”
Let us narrate a story and then evaluate it how brain’s
response system leads us to different destinations.

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