- don't use You statements, use I statements - "You never kiss me!"; "I like it when you kiss me."
- apply tolerance before you speak, remember things are not right or wrong
- accept differences, even if they are fundamental
- be specific about what is a End Type Issue, with yourself
- use the word feedback (bletch! I can translate people!)
- don't attack during times of stress, wait for the right moment
- if someone criticizes you, say "Let me think about that, I will come back to you about that."
- oversensitive people may be hiding from their weaknesses, confident people are more likely to take criticism in their stride
- treat criticism like an opportunity
- the criticiser has to put effort into How they criticize
- engage the help of the criticizer
"Here's a novel idea to save the planet: Remove the main cause of its woes - homo sapiens. The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement (VHEMT - pronounced "vehement") proposes the phasing out the human race. "When every human chooses to stop breeding, Earth's biosphere will be allowed to return to its former glory, and all remaining creatures will be free to live, die, and evolve (if they believe in evolution)," offers the movement's website. But 'it's going to take all of us going'." See www.vhemt.org SOURCE: Email invite. I thought I was the only one who thought like this. Everyone I know thanks the universe that I didn't study microbiology. I would have developed a human-specific killer virus. WE are the vermin.
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