This post isn’t about investing, but about my experience in dealing with criticism, which I am now used to through my work at Safal Niveshak.
I am sure a lot of you also face criticism in your life, especially when you go out of your way and do things that you are proud of, but that may raise a lot of eyebrows from those who do not understand what you are up to.
In fact, if you’re going to do anything interesting in the world, criticism is an unavoidable fact.
You’ll be criticized, because you’ll make mistakes, because some will be jealous, because people have opinions about anything interesting, because people want to help you, because some want to drag down those doing anything different.
The trick to navigating the icebergs of criticism is to figure out which are helpful, and steer clear of those that aren’t. And above all, do it with grace.
Now, while getting criticized – especially for the wrong reasons – got me emotional a few years back, I now take things in my stride. Often I don’t respond to critics who abuse me or my work instead of sharing a genuine critique, but it being a Sunday today, I got into this interesting discussion with a follower on Twitter (he isn’t a follower anymore 🙂 ).
Our dialogue started when I informed my Twitter readers about the last day of admission for my Mastermind course.
And over the next one hour, I was called “desperate”, “greedy”, “idiot”, and a “jhola chaap”. 🙂
Here’s that discussion. Instead of using that person’s original Twitter handle (let me not make him famous 😉 ), let me call him @abc420.