Scott EmpringhamAI Marketing Strategist | Helping CEOs Scale with AI

DAY 74/100 – CRITICISM DOESN’T DEFINE ME; IT REFINES ME

8 Nov 2024 · 1 min

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A brief spoken reflection (YouTube transcript) on how criticism can be used as a tool for personal growth. The speaker cites Tom Hopkins’ success credo (reframing failure as practice), distinguishes two types of criticism — casual/comments from strangers versus corrective criticism from close relations (spouse, children) — and argues that close criticism can be taken defensively or used to refine one’s behavior.

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Criticism doesn't define me, but it refines me. And it does it in two ways. One, you'll remember this author from way back in the day. Remember Tom Hopkins? Master the Art of Selling anything, or something like that. He has the success credo in there, and he encourages you to memorize, like, seven different things. And one of them is, I don't see failure as failure. I see as an opportunity to practice my techniques and perfect my performance. I must have read that a thousand times. There's two types of criticism. One is just from some random person that has something to say. And then there's one from maybe my wife who really sees that I've fallen off a path, I've broken a commitment. My kids call me on something. I broke a commitment. That criticism I can look at a couple ways. One, I could be defensive, or I could take it to heart and refine myself, look at how I contributed to a situation and change my ways.