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Posted On 11.06.08

Pardon the interruption. Our original programming will not be airing today. Instead we’re going to focus on dealing with criticism. We’re also going to focus on the pathetic individuals who feel the need to constantly criticize and bash other people.

I wasn’t going to write this but I feel it’s very important and very timely for many reasons. One of my friends just sent me a terrible write up about his (very successful) restaurant across the country and he’s pre

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Raven
11.06.08

Hi Adam,
A thoughtful, well-articulated post. I wish more people would follow your "ideas" for following their dreams. I also like that you openly acknowledge the negative feelings that accompany (what some try to disguise as "objective") criticism. Criticism has it's good points - but there is big difference between pointing out flaws and nit picking and bad mouthing.
If you want to do well - then you have to get used to criticism and I think lots of people know that, they're like you say, too timid and scared to pursue their own dreams so they spend precious wasted time putting others down.

Adam Gilbert
11.06.08

Raven,

Thanks so much for reading my (very) long post! Exactly. Huge difference between criticism that has good intentions and criticism that has bad intentions and does nothing but make the person who is criticizing feel better for 5 seconds.

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