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This week on Seth's Space..

Sun 07 Nov 2010 22:08:02 | 3 comments

Another successful week comes to an end while the next one is about to begin. I'm excited because I am set up for success. Getting to bed early tonight so I can get up and get to the gym in the morning. 4am wake-up call.

This week I learned that it is always better if I wait to react. Given enough time I can always think through what the right reaction is. then I am reacting from a place of being productive instead of reacting based on emotions. Usually the best approach is to NOT take anything too seriously - ESPECIALLY criticism. In fact if I can respond to criticism with something funny it takes all of the power out of the criticism because it sends the message very directly and clearly that I don't actually care about the criticism - that it doesn't bother me. Moreover if it did bother me at first, it won't after I properly make light of it. It's easy to discredit criticism with humor because usually if someone is criticizing it means they are not themselves in any way improving upon it because if they could human instinct dictates that they would. So the criticism is a reflection (usually) of a person's inability to understand it, which in turn suggests that the "critic" is intellectually inferior. Just saying :)

I wish everyone "enough" this week

Comments

Daniel Richman 18 months ago

I understand the action/reaction idea. I too face that sometimes. My humor is unlike most, (although well geared to my "age-group"), I often face criticism for my quick formed remarks and jokes alike. People laugh more than cringe, but my wife is getting tired of the constant attention at the grocery store (long story). If I know the criticism you speak of from that post on Facebook, that was a general "dick" move by that guy. His notion to pick on someone over Facebook posts reminds me a lot of my step-mom. She's always been quite vengeful on the Book of Faces, and I can't get her to shut up and realize that I am quite the cool dude. People sometimes take the internet as a battlefield where they can get to their opponents personal information and tarnish it. True story on my end, my step mom actually got to a Realtor who was showing us a condo, told her that if she even THOUGHT about getting us past the "showing" phase, she'd have hell to pay. Needless to say, we didn't talk with her again. Have a good week Seth!

Seth David 18 months ago

I've learned to take direction in this life. So when someone tells me that I am a Dick and I "Post stupid shit" the first thing is that I have to make fun of them (and I had a bit of fun at his expense there) but then I take the clear and obvious direction. I relieved him of the burden of having to read my posts - obviously they were creating a problem for him. It's unfortunate too because I had worked hard to like him over the years. My wife can't stand him and I finally went to her and told her that she was "right" about him. He really is a douchebag!

Daniel Richman 18 months ago

That's unfortunate. I often ponder what does that to people. I mean, I know some REALLY BIG douchebags. It's hard to escape them, and it's REALLY hard when they work with you. I've got a few that "cling-on" to one of my best clients. This lady is the kind of person that wants to help everybody, and she does. However, some people are inconsiderate and take advantage of her when she's not looking. I've tried and tried to explain it to her softly, but she's pretty dense, so I end up having to blatantly show her in real time as it happens. I guess that's just how life is. Here's to less douche bags!