[pessimizer]

Perfectionism is a problem that a lot of us have, and it stops us from failing enough times to perfect ourselves. Finishing a failure is a success. Somebody reading your blog entry and hating it is successfully attracting a reader. Somebody telling you how terrible something you wrote was is successfully attracting a reader and inspiring a reaction.

If the substance of the bad review hurts, it means you've communicated something clearly enough that it was easy to pick apart. If you understand and accept the criticism about how you were wrong, now you have a better chance of being right.

This is Hillary Rettig's specialty; she largely focuses on being kind to yourself, and getting out of your own ass. The world isn't ending when you fail.

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