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This is Why You Can’t Try To Avoid Criticism | Ask DS

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🗓️ 9 November 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Nobody wants to be criticized. It doesn’t feel good when people judge what you’ve done. We want the right people to like us, we want all people to like us. We want to be accepted, appreciated, and celebrated. So we try to be like other people, like the people that everyone likes.

But in the end, does this effort pay off? No, it doesn’t. You work hard to preempt criticism, to appeal to the trends, to make people like you and then what happens? They still criticize you. Somebody finds something to find fault with you about. Think of how Marcus Aurelius was savaged by critics in his own time, just as he is today by many academics and philosophers, written off by many historians.

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the

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the Daily Stoic Podcast where each day we read a passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you in your everyday life.

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Well on Thursdays we not only read the daily meditation but we answer some questions from

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listeners and fellow Stoics. We're trying to apply this philosophy just as you are. Some of these come from my talks,

1:36.8

some of these come from Zoom sessions that we do with Daily Stoic life members or as part of the challenges. Some of them are from

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interactions I have on the street when there happened to be someone there

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recording. But thank you for listening and we hope this is of use to you.

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This is why you can't try to avoid criticism.

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Nobody wants to be criticized.

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It doesn't feel good when people judge what you've done.

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We want the right people to like us. We want all people to like us.

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