Do you hate being criticized or corrected?

Mistakes are part of our lives and it surprises me when people do not want to stand up for their mistakes, have you seen anyone who became great in life and has never made a mistake?

Thomas Edison wasn't getting something right and he went making mistakes with his bulb invention a thousand times before he got it right, the bad thing for him then was that he invented it and I am not sure if there was anyone to correct him but today we have the privilege of been corrected and yet many of us hate been corrected.

To my understanding, people feel like a failure after making mistakes but that's not true. Every mistake takes you a step closer to your target or dreams but you have to admit it was a mistake and make corrections.

It is okay to feel bad about it but it is not okay when you avoid getting corrected for the mistakes you do, whenever they happen; I tell myself that "it is okay, you are making progress". I put the mistakes behind me and embrace the correction so that I can bring the progress to reality.

Not admitting mistakes would only make you stuck at a point for as long as it takes you to admit that you are wrong. Imagine been corrected for using the wrong mathematical sign during a calculation but you insist that is the right one to use, will you ever arrive at the answers you are supposed to get?

Not taking correction would only make us keep rotating at one point, we must accept correction. It doesn't make us a lesser person, no one is too small to correct you as long as he/she/they are telling you the right thing to do.

Criticism comes in two forms, it could be as a result of hate or you ain't doing something right.

The first I do when I get criticized is check if the person intended to help me become better at what I am doing or to stop me from making progress at it, identifying which one it is would make me understand the next step to take.

If the criticism occurred as a result of hate, I will progress with it because it is certain the person just wants to see me quit that glorious path I am walking on but when it is the other way around, there is more to do.

Not all critics want you to stop whatever you are doing, some want you to get better at it because they know you aren't doing that thing well enough or the way it is meant to be done.

I was watching a music competition documentary and a lady who was rejected at audition three times came on to win the competition at her fourth attempt. She mentioned how the judges criticisms helped her to improve a lot and it made her a better singer, she didn't see it as a dead-end like many of us do today.

After one criticism, you hear people saying this is not my way. I have to try something else and in the end, nothing will be accomplished because we will keep jumping here and there because of critics.

Correction and Criticisms have something in common which is to help you become a better person but progress will only happen if you admit mistakes and embrace correction or seek the way forward. The choice is yours to make because whichever action you take would be yours to live with at the end of everything.

Whenever I grumbled while my mom was correcting me then she would say, a child that refuses to take correction will find it difficult to grow and it wasn't long before I realized it even as a teenager.

No one is perfect, even the first man on earth made mistakes so who are you not to as a descendant?

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This article was written by me and it first appeared Here.