All the millions of criticisms can be reduced to four major categories. Underlying the words of the criticism itself, are one or more of the following: YOU ARE…. 1)Evil, 2)Stupid, 3)Uncaring, 4)Crazy. A failure It is helpful to prepare yourself for criticism by actually calling yourself these names at times so that they are not such a shock. For example, although I do not take pleasure in hurting people like true evil-doers, I do sometimes hurt people's feelings by being unaware or impulsive. As for stupid, I am definitely dumb when it comes to figuring out women. And I hoped our Prime Minister would do the right thing, which was a bit stupid. |