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| A Domainer's Greatest Skill: Learning How to Take Constructive Criticism |
| Sunday, 03 July 2011 00:05 |
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About 15 years ago during the midst of my troubled teenage years, there was an older male acquaintance of mine (who I will nickname "Troy") who eventually became my first life mentor. Troy was a little rough around the edges, sarcastic and seemed to have a knack of rubbing me the wrong way. The first year I knew him he drove me completely insane and our interactions resulted in me storming off time and time again. I did not like him for many reasons but overall he seemed to always be pointing out the worst in me. After a year of this, he finally explained why: Troy was giving me constructive criticism. I was at a point in my life where I was running down the wrong path which would become much worse if I did not make a change. After realizing this, he became someone I respected and learned from, someone I have not forgotten to this day.
Constructive criticism is not meant to be sugar coated, fluffy or leave you with warm, fuzzy feelings. It is meant to motivate you to do better for yourself and take control of areas that need improvement. When someone sugar coats advice you are left with half truths and minimal inspiration. I don't want that for myself so my choice is to listen to role models who choose to give it raw and rough like an NFL football coach. To learn this you have to cast aside any defensive emotions that rear up when taking constructive criticism and just take the advice for what it is. This is not easy to do and mastering this skill takes time and patience. You always have a choice to make the received constructive criticism apart of your plan, completely toss it out or peck away at pieces that you can use. However, do not make the mistake of dismissing it solely because of the giver's method of delivery. In addition, learn the difference between constructive criticism and just plain ole criticism. My mentors and role models in life have always been similar to Troy's method of teaching. It is next to impossible to grow and improve if you always fight against growth itself. In order to be open to it, you need to learn the skill of constructive criticism. It is one of the ways you can not only improve as a domainer but as an overall person. In other words - to the anonymous person who left the blog comment designed to take a jab at me: GFY. To Shane who took the time to tell me what worked on my blog and what didn't: thank you. Happy domaining. ~ Tia Wood Hits: 1552 Comments (1)
Shane
July 03, 2011
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