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The Advantages of Self-Criticism

When is it okay to criticize yourself?

Hiccupsandall
Ascent Publication
6 min readMay 15, 2020

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All of my articles have the same takeaway. My mission is to promote self-love, growth, and positivity. This may give the impression that I would never promote self-criticism.

But I do.

Self-criticism has a negative reputation to it. Simply put, this term means evaluating yourself. Often times it’s associated with a negative personality trait, or as being the trait, when it’s not.

As with any criticism, there’s a fine line on when it goes too far. While it’s human nature to find faults in ourselves, there are many situations where self-criticism is a no-go. Some of these include:

  1. Comparing yourself to others.
  2. Nitpicking your talents.
  3. Blatantly judging yourself.
  4. Blaming the past for present decisions.

All these points serve to prove that you’re not good enough. If we want to morph our future into something new, we must first let go of our pasts and set our eyes on our dreams.

“We do not get to choose how we start out in life. We do not get to choose the day we are born or the family we are born into, what we are named at birth, what country we are born in, and we do not get to choose our ancestry…

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