December 7: Your critics are the ones who still care
"When you’re doing something badly, and nobody bothers to tell you anymore, that means they gave up."
Source: Randy Pausch
Published: September 2007
Your critics are the ones who still care
After being diagnosed with terminal cancer, Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch gave his last lecture. Here’s a lesson he shared about appreciating your critics:
There was one football practice where my head coach rode me. The entire practice he was telling me what I was doing wrong and making me redo things.
When practice was over, one of the assistant coaches came over to me. “Tough practice,” he said. “That’s a good thing. When you’re doing something badly, and nobody bothers to tell you anymore, that means they gave up. That’s a very bad place to be. Your critics are the ones still telling you they care.”
Love this one. Shared with the rest of my building.
Wow! Another heavy hitting fact of the day. This is so good to view it this way. Tucking this away into my back pocket to pull out when I'm feeling like I can't do anything right.