How To Take Criticism Like Donald Trump
I’ve noticed lately that people aren’t very good at handling criticism, even when they’ve asked for it.
Our natural tendency when given advice or criticism is to become defensive and upset. We try to convince the person they’re wrong (or at least to see it from our perspective) which, ironically, has the exact opposite of the intended effect.
Know what the single most effective way is to disarm criticism? Agree with it.
You can imagine some common situations where this might come up…
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1 Heather // Aug 3, 2008 at 4:43 pm
I don’t really like Donald Trump. I guess everybody could learn something from others, even when they don’t like them. Even truly horrible human beings can teach us *something* usually.
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