One day a father and his son rode on their donkey from their small village to the big city. After 100 yards, someone stopped them and yelled at the father:

“You should be ashamed of yourself! Putting all that weight of the both of you on your poor donkey!”

The father told him he was right and immediately the father took the son off the donkey and he stayed on the donkey and they continued their way to the big city.

After another 100 yards, someone else stopped them and yelled at the father “You should be ashamed of yourself! Sitting all comfortably on your donkey while making your son walk beside you!”

The father told the person he was right, and immediately switched places with his son. The son sat on the donkey while the father walked beside the donkey and they proceeded to the big city.

After another 100 yards, someone else stopped them and yelled at the father “You should be ashamed of yourself! Is that what you teach your son? That he should ride on the donkey while you walk beside him. Where is your son’s respect for his own father?”

The father told him he was right, and immediately took his son off the donkey and proceeded to the big city as they both walked together beside the donkey.

After another 100 yards, someone else stopped them and yelled at the father “What is this foolishness! Do you have a donkey and you walk beside it on foot? So what do you have a donkey for?”

The moral of the story is that no matter what you do, there will always be someone on the side to tell you that you did something wrong.

Bottom line is you should go with your inner justice.

I’m not without criticism, I’m sure I’m making mistakes and that I will make mistakes in the future. I think one of the most important things I learn about myself as I grow up and grow up as a lecturer and as a human being is to be allowed to say “I was wrong”. It is permissible to admit mistakes, take responsibility for mistakes and learn from them and try to get better day by day, from lecture to lecture, from workshop to workshop and from year to year.

I am very critical of myself. And I try to do think with myself on a daily basis. I give myself time to think about where I can fix, sharpen, learn and get better next time.

In addition I very much connected to the saying about criticism, which I have heard in the past, and it guides me in the present.

“If you do not want to be criticized,

Do nothing. Say nothing. Be nothing. “

Therefore, if we want to be successful in life we ​​must learn to deal with criticism.