Taking Advantage Of Criticism To Empower You

How do you deal with criticism when it happened to you? Do you feel like a sword piercing through your heart or feel empowered to accept the criticism and reflect the sword? Criticism is just like an intimidating double edge sword that can do harm or do good to you, depending on how you accept it as.  In your entire life, there are bound to be times where there are criticism so be prepared to accept it as a strategy to success.

In times when you are being criticized at work, you must keep in mind that the criticism is directed at your work and not at you as a personal attack, so do not take hard feeling. Once you learn how to handle criticism this way, you will still be able to maintain a good personal relationship with your colleagues.

Learn to access and analyse the situation and accept the criticism if the critics are valid, learn from it and improvise. Do not get too defensive and try to debate aggressively with the person, it will make things worse as you might say stupid things in the rage. You must learn how to let go and move on.

Be graceful and show appreciation for their thought sharing regardless whether you are agreeable or not. Say "Thank You" and being calm, it will show that you are mature and professional in handling any tough situation.

Follow and practice these tips to accept criticism to succeed in life and work.

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“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” - Winston Churchill