Haters and Critics: How to Deal with People Judging You and Your Work
When you put your work out into the world, you have to be ready for the good, the bad, and the ugly.
Austin Kleon • Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered (Austin Kleon)
Roll with the punches. Keep moving. Every piece of criticism is an opportunity for new work. You can’t control what sort of criticism you receive, but you can control how you react to it.
Austin Kleon • Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered (Austin Kleon)
Criticism is futile because it puts a person on the defensive and usually makes him strive to justify himself. Criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person’s precious pride, hurts his sense of importance, and arouses resentment.
Dale Carnegie • How To Win Friends and Influence People
Third, your best work, because it serves others, will have a public-facing component. Some people you share it with will love it and expect you to do more of it. Others will hate it. Some people will be meh about it and want you to take it in a different direction. You’ll be in the center of a storm of other people’s opinions and have to remain abl
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