How to Deal with Criticism and Hate towards Your Brand

Ganesha Siagian
Personal Branding
Published in
2 min readJun 5, 2017

The earth is populated with 7.347 billion different kinds of people from different countries. Every people were raised in different circumstances, making all of them unique. Everyone is trying their best at whatever they’re doing in order to have a good life. But, within them, there are always some people that will criticize and hate people.

Don’t you hate it when people just criticize, trash talk, hate, or even insult your work and effort without them noticing how hard it is for you to make it? Don’t you just feel like bursting out your rage or even feel like giving up because of all the hate? Every hard work, good intent and love you put towards your brand being shattered by the hate of people you barely even know, isn’t it the worst?

At the end of the day, we can’t really control what people are going to say towards us. We can’t control the hate that comes out from their mouths. Everyone is entitled to their own opinions towards everything. But, there’s a thing we can really control; we can control ourselves. We can manage the way we’re going to react to the criticism, accept the criticism and finally, get away with the criticism.

There are 5 effective tricks on how to deal with criticism that you can try and use:

  1. Don’t lose your composure.

A lot of people often get frustrated or even giving up after receiving criticism. Don’t be like that. Always look forward and stay focused on your work.

2. Don’t be the hater.

Try your best not to tear down someone else’s work with irresponsible criticism. The world needs more positive people and you can be one of them.

3. Respond to the haters with kindness.

Responding hate with hate is too lame. Surprise your haters with kindness. They might feel bad afterwards seeing how nice you are towards them.

4. Stay positive.

Don’t get flustered easily; instead, try seeing the criticism in a different perspective. Criticism can help you see what your brand have been missing.

5. Make your own right choices.

Do what you think is best because people will criticize you either way.

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