Skip to content
GetRealPundit

GetRealPundit

Raw opinion

  • About
  • Recent Comments
  • Submit an article
  • Privacy Policy
  • Support Forum
  • Toggle search form

Listening to “haters” can be your best learning experience

Posted on June 8, 2019 By benign0 No Comments on Listening to “haters” can be your best learning experience
Share
Tweet
Share

It’s hard to comprehend why one would want to block people who beg to differ to your world views. While it is nice to be surrounded by people who always agree with what you say, there is a whole much more to learn from people who disagree with you.

Indeed, being hated was one of my biggest motivations for writing. In the early days of writing online content I was challenged to get better at my persuasion skills after copping a lot of feedback over what were, at the time, controversial views about Filipino culture.

As our community of “GetRealists” grew, we focused more on honing our craft by closely observing our detractors rather than shutting them out and creating little closed echo chambers for ourselves. Indeed, even today, there are very few explicit high fives exchanged amongst ourselves in public.

What we do, instead, is listen.

By listening to detractors one learns to make one’s theses more resilient — even anti-fragile — in a way that allows one’s conceptual frameworks to progressively become richer and deeper by incorporating what is useful from critics’ responses.

benign0
benign0

Webmaster of Get Real Philippines

Share this:

  • Tweet
  • More
  • Telegram
  • WhatsApp
Education Tags:critical thinking, learning, listening

Post navigation

Previous Post: An influx of Chinese workers inducing rise in property values is not a bad thing
Next Post: Leni Robredo shows lack of faith in Filipinos by seeking foreign intervention into Philippine affairs

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

You must be logged in to post a comment.

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • YouTube

Subscribe to Blog via Email

We'll notify you by email when a new post is published.

Join 35 other subscribers
Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use.
To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie Policy

Welcome!

  • Register
  • Log in

Archives

Recent comments

  • benign0 on Why does @1Sambayan need to wait until June 12?That's the million dollar question -- their abilit
  • Aldus Santos on Why does @1Sambayan need to wait until June 12?Even themselves cannot decide on who would be thei
  • Khayri Woulfe on Maria Ressa’s Mess at ABS-CBNMaria Ressa and ABS-CBN the most annoying teledram
  • DonDon Santos on “HR consultant” @SidLumawig encourages employers to discriminate based on political affiliationHAHAHA! Baka call center naman ng Dilawan trolls k
  • DonDon Santos on The show must go on for Kim Chiu even after a near-death experience!Tulog DAW siya...pero nabilang ang dami ng putok..

Copyright © 2023 GetRealPundit.

Powered by PressBook WordPress theme