Seth Godin writes a daily blog column each and every day. Most of them related to business growth and entrepreneurial ideas. Most are insightful, some a little funny, but all certainly stimulate some thought. Today's is about how to handle critics....Brilliant.
Lots of things about work are hard. Dealing with trolls is one of them. Trolls are critics who gain perverse pleasure in relentlessly tearing you and your ideas down. Here's the thing(s):
1. trolls will always be trolling2. critics rarely create3. they live in a tiny echo chamber, ignored by everyone except the trolled and the other trolls4. professionals (that's you) get paid to ignore them. It's part of your job.
"Can't please everyone," isn't just an aphorism, it's the secret of being remarkable...