There are two kinds of criticism: <\/p>\n
(1) Unfair criticism.<\/i> There\u2019ll always be people who love to rain on your parade; people who try to build themselves up by tearing others down. Mark Twain said, \u2018Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.\u2019 <\/p>\n
(2) Constructive criticism.<\/i> Solomon said, \u2018Like an earring of gold or an ornament of fine gold is the rebuke of a wise judge to a listening ear.\u2019<\/i> (Proverbs\u00a025:12\u00a0NIV) There\u2019s a major obstacle you must overcome in order to reach your highest potential. What is it? Our natural reluctance to discover anything unflattering about ourselves. When you erect defences against your inadequacies and try to hide your faults, you close the door to a vital source of self-knowledge. And in so doing, you deny yourself the joy of growing. <\/p>\n
Every one of us can improve what we\u2019re doing or the way we\u2019re doing it. In fact, if you\u2019re still celebrating what you did last year\u2014you\u2019re not making enough progress this year. After winning his third world championship, instead of having a big celebration, bull rider Tuff Hedeman moved on to Denver to start a new season\u2014the whole process over again. His line of reasoning was: \u2018The bull in Denver won\u2019t be impressed with what I did last week.\u2019 <\/p>\n
Whether you\u2019re an untested rookie or a veteran, if you want to be a champion tomorrow, you must be teachable today. Or as Solomon puts it: \u2018Whoever learns from correction is wise.\u2019<\/i> (Proverbs\u00a015:5\u00a0NLT)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
There are two kinds of criticism: (1) Unfair criticism. There\u2019ll always be people who love to rain on your parade; people who try to build themselves up by tearing others down. Mark Twain said, \u2018Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}