Ever felt good after being complimented or congratulated by a friend? I think we all have. There’s nothing wrong with it, au contraire, it’s absolutely beautiful when our friends have nothing but kind words to express to us. We feel more driven, motivated and it certainly uplifts our mood even ten times more than it already had been if we were happy before they complimented us.
But there are also cons to this. Sometimes it gets way too much in our head. For example, if you’re a runner and let’s say you did a 5k run in 20 minutes but your target time was 19 minutes. When you upload that shit on the gram you begin getting complimented by all your beloved ones and most of us start settling for the 20 minutes probably thinking: »It’s not bad after all, look at everybody cheering me up saying i’m fucking Forrest Gump». Then we proceed to limit ourselves and we get comfty with that result (not saying it’s bad but we have the capability of doing better and we know what better than anyone).
The trick is in taking the compliments, having a positive emotional reaction towards them but remaining objective and knowing there is still work to be improved.
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