Dealing with WAW Part 3

[labug]

Pilot, I used to hate it when people would give me criticism, helpful or not. My sense of self was so fragile, I couldn't hear it, so I instinctively went into attack or defend mode. I had to prove I was right. There were no chinks in my armor.

What I lost in the process was valuable insights into how I was, how others saw me. Things I could work on and change, possible make my life better.

I can almost hear the wheels in your head turning when someone gives you advice that's counter to your version of you. You're not even taking it in cause you're preparing the answer in your head to show how wrong the poster is.

Again, drop the defensiveness. Cultivate listening with an open mind. Just because you may have flaws, doesn't make you a flawed individual.

Until you can listen and really hear (or read and really understand), you're just pi$$in' in the wind.