What (Not) to Do with Criticism
The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast
Ascension
4.9 • 7.7K Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2022
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
When we receive criticism from someone it's easy to think that we can either put up our fists and fight it or let it defeat us. But are those really the only two options?
Today, Fr. Mike walks us through the third option when being criticized and how to receive a negative comment well and with charity.
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| 0:00.0 | And this is a sentence, this is a sentence every time. |
| 0:04.2 | Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz and this is a Sension Presents. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm a name's Father Mike Schmitz and this is a Sension Presents. |
| 0:17.6 | So the other day I went to a movie. |
| 0:19.8 | I enjoyed the movie. |
| 0:20.8 | The movie was called The Batman and I thought that movie, though as a whole, long A, not |
| 0:27.0 | for kids at all, people keep trying to make Batman darker and darker and grittier and |
| 0:32.8 | grittier and that's as pretty much as dark as you can get I think. |
| 0:36.4 | But also I thought it was the best Batman and movie I've ever seen in my life. |
| 0:41.8 | And so then I took to the Twitter and on the Twitter I tweeted and I said something along |
| 0:47.4 | those lines. |
| 0:48.4 | That was the best Batman movie I've ever seen, not for kids but a lot. |
| 0:51.5 | So then someone commented and so other people had different opinions, that's fine, no big |
| 0:56.1 | deal. |
| 0:57.1 | But someone said something along the lines of basically Father, we don't need your opinion |
| 1:02.6 | about movies in this day and age. |
| 1:04.3 | It was one of those moments where I was like, huh? |
| 1:07.2 | Huh? |
| 1:08.2 | Because you know the first impulse is here's some criticism that's being offered. |
| 1:13.4 | Here's some like you need to get off of the social media. |
| 1:17.6 | We don't need to hear what you think about a movie. |
| 1:21.2 | And I thought, huh. |
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