Criticism as Anti-Tool - 3 Quarks Daily

3 Posts on Dealing with Criticism

Let me be honest with you: I don’t deal well with criticism. I internalize it. I fret over it. I grieve it. I take far too long to turn it over to God and let it go. That’s one of the reasons I wrote these posts – to help myself as well as my readers. I pray at least one idea here will help you (and me) deal with the critics.  How to Deal with Criticism Why I Give People the Benefit of the Doubt when They Criticize Me 8 Helpful Ways Others Have …

Criticism as Anti-Tool - 3 Quarks Daily

by Christopher Hall Image generated by ChatGPT Despite writing my doctoral thesis on Alexander Pope’s An Essay on Man, a work most notorious for its poorly optimized optimism, I am something of a natural pessimist. Pessimism is at the right moments a potent tool for clarity (as is, even I have to admit, optimism, though not surprisingly I think this is the case more rarely), and so it is disappointing that the moment when I could have used it th…