Social Sector
What to Do with Your Critics
I’ve learned the hard way: The cheapest way to stir up good feelings for ourselves is to collect affirmation. To glean worth from applause, media coverage or recognition—all those times someone notices how smart or efficient we are.
These kind of surface-y, impulse-driven good feelings are easy to come by. But things often come cheap because they are cheap. Fleeting affirmation is part of doing good, but it often feeds the seedy underbelly of doing good. After all, good feelings derived from affirmation too often unravel at the first sign of disapproval...
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