Criticism Comes With Success

“There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.”

— Aristotle

If you want to live a life free from being attacked by conformist machine masses, don’t do anything. Don’t say anything. Don’t be anything. Only participate in the machine systems without complaint, or with complaint, just don’t do anything original, and then maybe you won’t be criticized.

But if you plan or attempt to make any impact upon this world, you will be criticized. You may be loved, but you will definitely be hated. It’s the world we currently live upon.

If you want success, you can’t be afraid of being hated. You have to pretty much get used to being loved & hated for who you are, &/or to ignore it. To listen to a small tribe that you trust, & to ignore any hateful tribes. & as much as possible, listen to your own heart & brain.

“Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.”

— Einstein

You can participate with the scared & often hateful masses, or you can be part of the few who see with your own eyes and feel with your own heart.

The choice is yours.

Persevere

“Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.” 
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

You lost the game.

You won it next week.

You fell down.

You got back up.

You’ve been hated.

You’ve been loved.

Why is it easier for people to cling to the negative?

It could be, like Tupac said, that “fear is stronger than love.”

Or it could be the result of societies current dogmas.

Societies change, history shows us this, but it always begins at an individual level.

You may have been defeated once, or even hundreds of times, but life is not done with you yet.

Don’t confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. 

Persevere.