Have you ever been preparing for a clash, be it intellectual, verbal, physical, only to realize nobody is interested in fighting with you, or worse — nobody even showed up?
When it comes to criticism, naysayers are not very creative. From someone who tries to put you down, you would expect something more than predictable banality. Luckily enough, usually that's pretty much all they have to offer.
Luckily?
Yes. Here's the list of Top 5 negative comments you can hear. And advice how to disarm them on the spot.
Last summer I had to drive to Linz, small town in northern Austria. I didn’t use the ride-recording app I downloaded though. Why? Because recording your ride is illegal in Austria and, when caught, can cost you around 10.000 euro.
You achieve your goal. The last drop of sweat crawls from your forehead down to your nose. The warm, summer, setting sun turns the landscape around you gold and red, so that your achieved goal gets its cliche epic background.
But it is also possible, that, upon achieving your goal, all you’ll have to say is “meh”.
While majority of blogs I had a pleasure to read, elaborate on how to “avoid”, “overcome” or “handle” the failure, I’d like to suggest that we erase that word from our vocabularies.
Have you ever had that one simple question on the back of your head, when someone was telling you what you should do, or how you should do it? The “Yeah, but Why?” question? The same you eventually didn’t ask?