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Criticizing Better

Public criticism tends to trigger a defensive reaction and make it much harder for a person to accept they’ve made a mistake and to learn from it.

  • Corrections, factual observations, disagreements, and debates are different from criticism.
  • Criticizing a person should be done in private.
  • Don’t make the problem personal, but isolate it as something different from the individual.
  • Don’t advise the person getting criticized to not take it personally.

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