LIVE INTEGRATED LIFE WITH OTHERS

Dealing with people can be a bit challenging. Some people will do things that offend you, and some will do things that make you happy. At the end of the day, it is important to learn how to tolerate living with both groups of people:

1.      What do you think is tolerance?

2.      How can an intolerant person become tolerant?

3.      Why do you think tolerance is essential, especially in social life?

Meaning of Tolerance

Take a moment to think about your lifestyle: your behaviors, actions, thoughts, and environment. Now think about someone else's. Chances are there are some aspects of other people's lives which annoy you.

Many people are surrounded by others who appear to be 'incompetent' and 'annoying'. Understanding tolerance can help shift our attitudes toward others, leading us to a more productive and happy life.

Tolerance can be defined as a fair and objective attitude towards those whose lifestyle differs from yours. The level of tolerance in your life can be attributed to levels of happiness and contentment, as many researchers have pointed out; However, the same researchers appear to struggle when examining paradoxical questions such as, 'are tolerant people more happy, or are happy people more tolerant?'

 

 

How to Respond to Criticism

How you respond to correction, criticism, and negative feedback shows who you are. Thus, it is essential to learn how to take criticism gracefully and treat these instances as opportunities to grow. If you immediately shut down and act as a victim, you’re unlikely to learn and grow from past mistakes. Receiving corrections is important to your development. Criticism is valuable at times when it helps you improve for the better.

1. Positive Responses

The first step in receiving criticism is to listen actively and make a collaborative effort not to be defensive. Remember that giving criticism can be almost as hard as receiving it, so neither you nor your critic is likely to be entirely comfortable. Once your reviewer/critic has said their piece, whether in person or in writing the following effective tools can help you respond.

2. Ask questions about how you are going to improve

Sometimes the people criticizing you may have an idea already on what you should do to improve. So normally try to ask people to clarify and give out suggestions which many times will be valuable to you.

3. Be thankful for the feedback

It is important to be grateful for the feedback that you get from people especially when it is constructive. Voice up for gratitude and thank them for their feedback.

Because when you do that, you act neutral it really does not show if you are angry or sad. If you show that you are being positive to criticism chances are that people will always be honest with you even in the future and we all know that honesty is invaluable.

4. Distinguish between useful criticism and useless criticism

It is a sad reality that there will always be people who will criticize you and most of them are from negative background and experiences and they are usually looking for something that is not correct. This type of criticism is not the same like useful criticism, so if it happens you meet with such kind of a thing just smile and receive the feedback

5. Ask the time to address their concerns

Plan a timetable where you can meet them and thank them for feedback, by doing this you will also get a time to make some improvement on the areas or things which you got criticized before.