Event Criticism & Self Criticism

Video Transcript

"What you also need to do is learn to separate what I'm going to call event criticism from self criticism. And this is especially applicable to work situations, to public speaking situations, to a lot of situations where you are going to be receiving constructive criticism. I'll go back to the public speaking example. You've done this persuasive speech, and a critic says I don't believe--I did not believe your arguments. That is event criticism. That is something that structurally in your speech was not believable. That was not self criticism. What he said was I found your arguments not believable. He didn't say you are a big, fat liar. See, there's a difference there. So you have to be able to remove yourself and not take things personally. Look at the event or the speech, or the job, or whatever it is that's being criticized, and learn to change that. Leave yourself out of it."