"When one of the doctors criticizes me, I get defensive. I feel like a child again, being scolded, and I want to explain that I’m not wrong," says Viola, a nurse. This is a common reaction to criticism, but not a good one. There are better ways of dealing with criticism.
1. Try to be objective. When Sol was criticized by his new employer for not having made a sale, Sol’s reaction was to feel sorry for himself. "I had put everything I had into making that sale," Sol says," and I felt that I had failed as a person. I had to learn through experience not to react like that to each failure."
2. Take time to cool down. Rather than reacting immediately to criticism, take some time to think over what was said. Your first question should be whether the criticism is fair from the other person’s position. The problem may be a simple misunderstanding of what you did or your reasons for doing it.
3. Take positive action.
A. argued bitterly with his employer
B. was angry and gave up his job
C. was sorry for himself
D. was sad but confident
"When one of the doctors criticizes me, I get defensive. I feel like a child again, being scolded, and I want to explain that I’m not wrong," says Viola, a nurse. This is a common reaction to criticism, but not a good one. There are better ways of dealing with criticism.
1. Try to be objective. When Sol was criticized by his new employer for not having made a sale, Sol’s reaction was to feel sorry for himself. "I had put everything I had into making that sale," Sol says," and I felt that I had failed as a person. I had to learn through experience not to react like that to each failure."
2. Take time to cool down. Rather than reacting immediately to criticism, take some time to think over what was said. Your first question should be whether the criticism is fair from the other person’s position. The problem may be a simple misunderstanding of what you did or your reasons for doing it.
3. Take
A. argued bitterly with his employer
B. was angry and gave up his job
C. was sorry for himself
D. was sad but confident
"When one of the doctors criticizes(批评) me, I get defensive: I feel like a child again, being scolded, and I want to explain that I’ m not wrong. " says Viola, a nurse. This is a common reaction(反 应) to criticism, but not a good one. There are better ways of dealing with criticism.
1. Try to be objective (客观). When Sol was criticized by his new employer for not having made a sale, Sol’s reaction was to feel sorry for himself. "I had put everything I had into making that sale," Sol says," and I felt that I had failed as a person. I had to learn through experience not to react like that to each failure. "
2. Take time to cool down. Rather than reacting immediately to criticism, take some time to think over what was said. Your first question should be whether the criticism is fair from the other person’ s position. The problem may be a simple misunderstanding of what you did or your reasons for doing it.
3. Take
A. argued bitterly with his employer
B. was angry and gave up his job
C. was sorry for what he did
D. was sad and self-pitying
She once said:" When people ask me if writing has been a hard or easy road I always answer with the famous saying, ’the end is nothing; the road is all.’ That is what I mean when I say writing has been a pleasure. I have never faced the typewriter(打字机) with the thought that one more task had to be done. "
Like most writers, Willa Cather did not write books for the money that they brought her, but rather for the pleasure that came in their writing. Her works were, like her, simple and full of the vigor(活力) of her days in Nebraska, where she grew from childhood to young womanhood and where she developed a deep love for the treeless land of the Great Plains with its wild flowers, wheat fields and rivers.
"It’s a rather strange thing about the flat country," she wrote later. "It takes hold of you, or it leaves you perfectly cold. A great many people find it very dull; they like a church tower,
A. simple and lively
B. interesting and enjoyable
C. neither too hard nor too easy
D. opened up a road to success
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