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Welcome back to the quarter of the day show. I'm your host Sean Cracks and a

lot of listeners. And this is my Pamela Jett and she's talking about the very fact that

we're going to make mistakes and that we're going to encounter constructive criticism and sometimes

destructive criticism. And that's just the fact of life. And when we make mistakes or we encounter

this criticism, what we tend to do to ourselves is we beat ourselves up and we ruminate on it.

And we get this loop of negative thinking going on in our minds that really, you know, messes up

our vibe. And so what she's going to do today is give you some really, really simple things that

you can do to help you to better handle the criticism and the mistakes that you make. And so the

quote of the day is this, accept all compliments with a thank you. Here's Pamela.

Did you know that the average adult talks to themselves at a rate of 600 to 800 words per minute?

And you thought I talked fast. Interestingly, we believe the things that we say when we talk

to ourselves because we have no motivation to lie. And behavioral psychologists have taught me

that 75% of the things that the average person says when they talk to themselves are negative.

We are incredibly hard on ourselves. We set limits on our own success. We set limits on our own

achievement. We tell ourselves, I can't. And sometimes those words don't just stay in our heads.

They come flying out of our mouths. Let me ask you a question. Anybody ever been driving down the

road and miss their off-ramp on the freeway? Anybody experience that? And perhaps you have a child

or had a child in your car with you at the time. And as you miss that freeway on for a few months,

oh, I can't believe I did that. I am so stupid. And then three weeks down the road, you see your

child playing with a puzzle or a toy and they make a mistake and they say, oh, I can't believe that.

I'm so stupid. And you think to yourself, I never told my child I was stupid. They were stupid.

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