Your Harshest Critic
Originally published on May 6, 2020 We’re our own harshest critic. That’s a fact. Sometimes the criticism is more stinging than at other times. Sometimes we brush it off, but usually, that’s when the stakes are low. The higher the stakes, the bigger the critic. If we’re stretching our capabilities, learning something new, the nasty critic will show up again. Always trying to talk us out of whatever it is we’re doing. It’s a big reason people don’t learn new things – adults at least. We’re afraid to look like a failure at something we’ve never done and have zero …