You’re going to be criticized, judged, influenced, and swung at.
There’s no preventing it and there’s no reason to prevent it. Getting swung at will help you redirect what you want to say, what you mean, what you want the audience to understand. If you look at criticism as a opportunity to calibrate your crosshairs, then you can better succeed next time (There will always be a next time.)
However, the best of the best have a tough time handling brutal criticism. While there is no preventing it, you can weaken any future criticism.
Take a swing at yourself before anyone else gets a shot.
Look at your work from a critics point of view, from your audience’s point of view, from a random-person-just-coming-across-your-work’s point of view. Dont just criticize yourself before others do, make the adjustment so no one will criticize you the same way you just did. Run a self-evaluation before you release your work. It’s only then that you can really benefit from the input from your audience. If they make suggestions to what you already know, how do you learn anything new?
Stay Positive & Just Don’t Keep Swinging (everybody wants a turn)
Garth E. Beyer
