How to respond to critics = crickets
I just listened to +The Minimalists 055 Critics. I was not expecting to find it relevant to me, as though sometimes I would like to create, I do not define myself as a creator (perhaps I have not yet found the bravery and boldness to do so.) I thought their approach was a good one, and found myself empathising with Fields Millburn and his responses to critics. Once they got to the quote from Theodore Roosevelt though I made the connection to my own life. It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause...