How to Deal With Neg Feedback & Criticism in a Positive Way

How to Deal With Negative Feedback and Criticism in a Positive Way

We all need to learn better way of dealing with criticism.  Growing in the Bronx area, and I still remember many things it like it was yesterday.  As a young child it was not uncomment to hear negative comments from all fronts. This was not an assigned this was a routine part of the story of our lives drive-by shooting, fights and many other incidents in New York. Once I even had a lady comment suicide within 10 yards of me and my friend Brent.  Criticism was also a strong part of life. Many people had words that could cut like hot knife in butter. Sometime those words have been directed at me.  In Marine Corp boot camp that type of thing continued.  We are critique on everything I spent many years in the military and was in my late teens. My drill instructors amazing. My ego was under serious assault, back then.

The point it that all and all these are just words.  These words only have the power that we give them.  If you do not give them any power they have no control over you.  I am not saying to not paid attention I am saying do not let them control you.  Use these words as a guide not at the measuring stick or gauge to your happiness or your joy.  No matter who they come from.  Sometimes people can go too but do not let them drive you to do anything crazy.  Do look for relief in drinks or drug.  Do not reduce yourself to violence.

Yes you may feel anger and disappointment but that is part of life. Take it as a learning experience and learn from it and become a better and stronger person from it.  Do not let criticism force you to contemplate quitting, quitting is not part of you DNA. Always be nice and professional.  But keep you control you will be winning the war.  Remember there really is no war so that other person is only in a battle with themselves.