When you reject compliments and get defensive about criticism, you're blocking your own growth. These reactions signal limiting beliefs underneath. Building emotional intelligence means learning to receive both praise and feedback without flinching.
Man, you find yourself, you can't, you can't take a compliment, you can't handle criticism. Think about that for a second, right? So criticism, right? Somebody criticizes something that you do or something that you said. If you get, if you easily get offended without being able to hear what's being said or get some understanding why it's being said in the first place, Then you miss an opportunity to develop, right? You miss an opportunity to— maybe a blind spot is being revealed, and you just, because you in your feelings, because somebody— you feel like somebody talking about you or talking down on you, miss an opportunity. You can't take a compliment. And sometimes somebody tell you, oh, that's a— it's a nice car, you guys. You downplay it. Oh, it's a little something. It's cool. Or you go and say the thing that you don't like about it, or it's like, oh, some nice shoes. You're like, they cool, but— or this is a nice this, and you like, oh, thank you, but— that is, that is an indicator that there's some inner, more inner work that needs to be done because you can't handle criticism and you can't accept a compliment. And while we're talking about emotional intelligence and self-awareness, if you get this Signal. If this rings true to you, it's time to start doing a little bit deeper work and finding out what those limited beliefs are that is keeping you from being able to allow someone to point out something that you might not see, or give you some advice on something as constructive criticism without you getting offended, and allow someone to give you a compliment without downplaying it. That's EI at the next level.
I was literally kicked off a Southwest flight before for being disrespectful.
