When seeing someone or do something, it’s easy to be a critic.
After the fact all the information appears to be known. You may
ask yourself, “How could they have made a dumb decision?” The
facts may seem crystal clear in hindsight, but rarely do you
have all the information. There is a lot going on in everyone’s
lives. You never know everything that is going on in the other
person’s life that played in to their decision. When you are
criticized, what is the most common reaction? For me, I can
defend my decision because I feel that I have the facts.
Sometimes I do and sometimes I don’t. When I don’t it isn’t that
I am stupid, but it is because I made the best decision I could
with the information I had at the time. No reasonable person
wants to make bad decisions. People usually want to and try to
do the right thing. Criticizing them for making a poor decision
does not help. When you feel compelled to criticize, make the
extra effort to catch yourself before you say anything. - Think
of what other factors not