81. Criticism: 9 Ways to Know Whether to Use it As a Powerful Tool or Let it Go
Spiritually Hungry
Monica Berg and Michael Berg
4.8 • 617 Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2022
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Receiving criticism is often uncomfortable, and most people, understandably, don’t like it. However, we can never see ourselves completely, so it’s important to stay open to receiving feedback. And the truth is, no matter how much internal work we have done, there is always more to do; our spiritual growth is meant to be continuous. Tune in as Monica and Michael discuss how to use criticism as a tool for radical transformation.
“Before you offer criticism, ask yourself these three things: do you really care for the person, is this coming from a place of humility, and is this coming from a place of lack? Think about these things deeply.” – Michael Berg
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| 0:00.0 | I find often that people criticizing it comes from a place of lack. |
| 0:13.0 | They don't really believe in their own ability to do something and or they haven't been able to do something that they want to do. |
| 0:19.0 | And so therefore they can look at this person because, oh, I had that idea. Yeah, maybe you had that same idea, but what did you do with it? |
| 0:24.7 | Right. Right. So, I mean, that kind of criticism, I think, bothers me the most. |
| 0:32.8 | Welcome to the spiritually hungry podcast, episode 81. So Michael, I have a one-liner for you that was born out of the pandemic, which we know |
| 0:41.2 | forced couples to spend a lot more time together than they previously had. |
| 0:46.2 | So many have started playing the fun little pandemic game called, Why Are You Doing It That way? |
| 0:53.3 | And guess what? |
| 0:54.2 | You know, we started playing that game even before the pandemic. |
| 0:58.3 | No. |
| 1:00.1 | I didn't find any humor in that. |
| 1:02.6 | And to this game, there are no winners, which leads us to today's topic. |
| 1:09.1 | That would be criticism. |
| 1:13.9 | You still stand by that? We played that game a long time ago. Yeah, I think everybody does to some extent. I'm not saying it's |
| 1:16.7 | good or bad. I'm not saying it's really bad, right? No, I'm saying it's bad. Okay. So, |
| 1:23.2 | when it comes to criticism, I don't think that there's... Because it can be fascinating, |
| 1:26.9 | right? There's a beautiful reason. |
| 1:28.2 | Well, I think that's the point of this podcast, but... |
| 1:30.3 | No one likes criticism until we rephrase it. |
| 1:36.1 | No one likes criticism. |
| 1:37.9 | Comedian Daniel Tosh said, honest criticism is hard to take, |
| 1:42.2 | particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, |
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