I'm point on my driveway. We all know what that means. It's another drive to work.

Okay, I have a cold, as you can't tell. And I might cough a little bit during this, but I will...

The show will go on. I have to drive to work, and you guys will get your show.

Okay, so today is an interesting topic.

Inspired by my blog, yet again.

Today I'm going to talk about constructive criticism.

And I'm going to try to hit it from two different angles.

One, I want to talk about how to give constructive criticism, and I want to talk about how

to receive constructive criticism.

Okay, so, I mean, one of the things about my job is I interact a lot with the public, and so I hear a lot of criticism.

And so let me start by laying out a idea that I have, some philosophy that I have, and that I will be coming back to this philosophy a lot today.

So let me lay this out, and a lot of my talk about criticism is going to be filtered through

this idea. So my idea is that there's two ways to live your life. You can build up the world,

or you can tear down the world. And what I mean by that is you can take actions that you believe will lead to a better

world that as a result of my actions, the world will be a better place, or you can, as

results of your actions, things become worse.

You make the world overall a worse world to live in.

And I don't think necessarily, I mean, I think everybody, if you ask them in a vacuum,

goes, of course I want to make a better world. But when you actually sort of look at what they do

and look at their behavior, one of the things I like to always look at is look at a certain

action and say,

is this action something that improves things or not?

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