Today’s Word: Criticism

Criticism: there are three main types of criticism: destructive, constructive, and instructive.

NOTE: Criticism is important. Personally, I’m not a big fan of being criticized. I don’t mind dolling it out every now and then. LOL. When I was an enlisted man in the army, I had a couple of sergeants who criticized me – my buddies laughed and called it an ass chewing. It was all that and more. I didn’t like it. I didn’t make the same mistakes a second time. I needed it. When I entered higher education I went to a publishing workshop. The big take away was all about criticism. The speaker said, when you get a paper rejected, and you will, you’ll probably be angry. Enjoy your anger for 24 hours, then let it go and take their criticism seriously and strengthen your paper and resubmit it. The speaker was right. I didn’t like the criticism. I chose to learn from from and it made all the difference in my career. Embrace criticism, use it as a reference point for self-evaluation.