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May 3rd, 2014 - 10:29 AM

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Critics. Sit Up and Listen

Critics – Sit Up and Listen
by Kerri Williams
Let’s take a look at critics. Not the inner critic, the one you fight with on a daily basis, but the critics who evaluate your work. There are two types of critics you’ll deal with as a creative – the professional critic (the one who gets paid to evaluate your work) and the inner circle critic (the one you choose to evaluate your work).

THE PROFESSIONAL CRITIC
As creatives, you can’t avoid the professional critic. They’re out there, reviewing books and art and music and movies and just about anything that may hold an opinion.
But don’t be swayed. Critics can serve a purpose. While their job is to share their opinion on what you do, what they say could be valid. Or it could be aversive. Either way, learn from it.
Don’t let the inner critic that you own take control of this. The inner critic is not only the one that will tell you you’re a talentless hack; it’s also the one who will attack the professional critic with all sorts of justification. So pull back the inner critic, regardless of what it says, and sit for a while, let whatever the critic had to say settle in.
While you may not agree with the critic, by listening to the professional critic, it may in the long run change the way you look at your work. It may change your work – for the better. Like I said, you don’t have to agree with the critic. Just listen.

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