On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 12:12:16PM +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: > Hi all, > > like the title mentions this a short essay with a two-fold message. It is > posted only to [email protected] (for now) and is about criticism. > > 1. Handling criticism: > ---------------------- > > People like to criticise other people. Whatever you'll do some people will be > unhappy and criticise you: see
People don't have to be unhappy with someone to be critical of them. The two don't automatically go together. In fact I think it's somewhat immature to be critical of someone simply because they've upset you. Code reviews may be a case in point. No one needs to be unhappy with someone else to adhere to a code style or point out an unintended or unwanted side-effect in code. But being critical is necessary in a code review. But you're right some people like to criticise others - needlessly in my view. That energy spent criticising others around them could perhaps be put to better use. I see an overly critical person as having their own set of mental health problems they really need to address to learn not to reflect them out onto other people; they need to be managed, tolerated and one has to minimise/reduce the damage they can cause a team. Kind regards Lesley -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] http://learn.perl.org/
