Love Your Critics
They will surely set you free
Zero rating — what a gift!
How Captain Zero set me free…
I am turning inside out with delight as a critic rates a training I delivered at zero.
Out of ten.
Ze.
Ro.
Oh the joy!
The liberation!
After a lifetime spent trying to be good enough — wincing at any whiff of displeasure — my grim disapprover forces my hand. It’s time to drop this futility.
I have to stop caring about being judged and found wanting.
It’s a case of drop the addiction or die…
I can’t live that way any more.
I can’t live for other people’s ratings.
I hadn’t faced my addiction before
I knew it was there, of course. My addiction to approval came with continuous craving: a torturous, insatiable desire for kind feedback.
I had suffered the slings and arrows, many times, of lukewarm receptions and worse, delivering where I wasn’t best fit.
That’s par for the course in organisations where the people in the room aren’t the ones asking…
