Question:“On being criticized”
On being criticized
Criticism arrives as two things mixed: what you should mend and what the other person needs to unload. Take both at once and both become yours.
Split what you heard into two lines. From what is true, choose one thing and mend it. Send the rest back to that person’s day. You do not have to live their day as well.
When Aristophanes made Socrates a laughingstock on the stage, it is said that Socrates stood up in his seat so that the strangers in the audience could see his face.